For immediate
release: 12/6/11
Edwards
to serve as new GRDA General Counsel
Vinita – Grand River Dam Authority Chief Executive Officer/Director
of Investments Dan Sullivan has announced that Ellen Edwards has joined GRDA as
the Authority’s new General Counsel. She began her duties on December 1.
Edwards comes to GRDA from the Oklahoma Insurance Department where she
had served as Deputy General Counsel since January 2011. Prior to that, she was
Of Counsel with the Conner & Winters firm. She has also served as a member
of the Oklahoma Workers Compensation Advisory Council and, from 1996 to 2008,
served as an Oklahoma Workers Compensation Court Judge.
“We are honored to have someone with the breadth of experience that
Ellen Edwards brings to GRDA as general counsel,” said Sullivan. “As an
experienced litigator, worker's compensation judge and Counsel for the Oklahoma
Insurance Department, Ellen brings the background and experience needed to
successfully lead our legal department. I am grateful for her service to the
State of Oklahoma and look forward to her significant contributions as GRDA
General Counsel.”
Edwards earned her Juris Doctorate from the University Of Oklahoma
College Of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Colorado College. She replaces
outgoing GRDA General Counsel Gretchen Zumwalt-Smith whose resignation was
effective December 1. Zumwalt-Smith had led the GRDA Legal Department since
2006.
Headquartered in Vinita, GRDA is a non-appropriated state agency, funded
by revenues from the sale of electricity and water. GRDA generates, transmits
and sells electricity to Oklahoma municipalities, electric cooperatives and
industrial customers, as well as off-system customers across a four-state
region. GRDA also manages nearly 70,000 surface acres of lake waters in
Oklahoma (Grand Lake, Lake Hudson, and W.R. Holway Reservoir).
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Grand River Dam Authority News Release
Contact: Justin Alberty, Corporate Communications Director - Grand
River Dam Authority
(918) 256 5545, jalberty@grda.com, www.grda.com