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Vice President and Corporate Secretary
AGL Resources
Myra Coleman Bierria was appointed vice president and corporate secretary at AGL Resources (NYSE: GAS) in March 2008. She is responsible for all corporate governance and securities law compliance and disclosure matters.
Before her promotion to corporate secretary in February 2005, Ms. Bierria was executive director, corporate governance and securities counsel, for the company. She was the lead governance counsel for AGL Resources subsidiary, Atlanta Gas Light, when it was honored with the 2004 Georgia Business Ethics Award.
Prior to joining AGL Resources in 2002, Ms. Bierria was a business and technology attorney at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in New York, where she specialized in securities offerings, venture capital transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. Bierria is a member of the New York State Bar. She also is a member of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, where she serves on the in-house counsel and mentor program planning committees. She is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Atlanta Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She recently completed a two-year term as an ambassador for the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.
A member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Ms. Bierria recently served as president and is an advisory committee member for the Southeastern chapter, the Society's third largest chapter.
In 2006, Ms. Bierria received the Atlanta Business Chronicle's "40 Under 40 Up and Comer Award." Her non-profit activities include membership on the boards of the AGL Resources Inc. Private Foundation, Aid Atlanta Inc. and the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Inc. She is a member of the current class of Leadership Atlanta.
She received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
She and her family live in Atlanta.
January 2012
About AGL Resources
AGL Resources (NYSE: GAS) is an Atlanta-based energy services holding company with operations in natural gas distribution, retail operations, wholesale services, midstream operations and cargo shipping. As the nation's largest natural gas-only distributor based on customer count, AGL Resources serves approximately 4.5 million utility customers through its regulated distribution subsidiaries in seven states. The company also serves more than one million retail customers through its SouthStar Energy Services joint venture and Nicor National, which market natural gas and related home services. Other non-utility businesses include asset management for natural gas wholesale customers through Sequent Energy Management, ownership and operation of natural gas storage facilities, and ownership of Tropical Shipping, one of the largest containerized cargo carriers serving the Bahamas and Caribbean region. AGL Resources is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.aglresources.com.
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