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May 5, 2005
Dominion Names Robert Blue to Government Affairs
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Company Also Selects James
Beamer as Chief Lobbyist for Virginia Legislature
RICHMOND, Va. - Dominion, one of the nation’s largest
energy producers, Thursday named Robert M. “Bob” Blue, counselor
and policy director to Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, to the post of managing director–State
Affairs and Corporate Public Policy, effective July 1.
Since 2002, Blue has advised the governor on all legal issues
related to his office and the cabinet, coordinated review of legislation and
supervised policy development and legislative relations. He will report to Eva
S. Hardy, senior vice president-External Affairs and Corporate Communications,
and William C. Hall Jr., vice president-External Affairs and Corporate Communications.
Blue, a Charlottesville, Va., native, graduated in 1989 from
the University of Virginia with honors, and in 1994 from Yale Law School, where
he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law and Policy Review. He will help
lead Dominion’s government affairs teams in Virginia, North Carolina,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Northeast and Mid-America and direct
the public policy group.
Also joining the Dominion legislative team will be James W.
“Jim” Beamer, former legislative liaison for Virginia Gov. George
Allen, and president of JWB Consulting Co. Beamer, who has been a contract lobbyist
for the company, will have his contractual duties expanded to become Dominion’s
chief lobbyist for the Virginia General Assembly. Beamer, a graduate of Old
Dominion University, has worked in numerous state and legislative campaigns
and has headed his own lobbying firm for the past nine years. He also served
as finance director to the Virginia Joint Republican Legislative Caucus.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers of energy,
with an energy portfolio of about 28,100 megawatts of generation, about 6 trillion
cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves and 7,900 miles of natural
gas transmission pipeline. Dominion also operates the nation's largest underground
natural gas storage system with more than 965 billion cubic feet of storage
capacity and serves retail energy customers in nine states. For more information
about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at www.dom.com.
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