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Craven Crowell

Energy and economic development administrator

Craven H. Crowell Jr. (born August 27, 1943, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an energy and economic development administrator.2

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Born Aug 27, 1943.1

About

He has served in leadership positions in the energy industry, including eight years as chairman of the three-member board of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), appointed by Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1993.

He was named Alumnus of the Year by Lipscomb University in 1995.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedLipscomb University3

Crowell was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Lipscomb University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1965. While in college, Crowell was president of the Lipscomb chapter of Pi Delta Epsilon, a collegiate journalism fraternity. He was a reporter and city editor with the Nashville Tennessean and won the National Headliner Award for Investigative Reporting in 1969. He then became the press secretary of U.S. Senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee. During this time, Crowell served in the United States Marine Corps and was a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve.

In 1980, he was appointed the director of Information and vice president of Tennessee Valley Authority and served in this position until 1989. In 1989, he left TVA to serve as the chief of staff for Sasser.

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Career

He joined Oliver Wyman, an international consulting firm, as a partner in 2004 and worked there until 2011. He subsequently served as the chairman of the board of directors of Texas Reliability Entity (TexasRE) until 2012. From 2012 to 2021, Crowell was chairman of the board of directors of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

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Personal life

  • BornAug 27, 1943, Nashville5
  • CitizenshipUnited States6

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