Obama to Nominate Nobel Winner to TVA Board

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - President Barack Obama says he plans to nominate a professor who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors.

The White House on Thursday announced his plans to nominate Marilyn A. Brown for one of two vacant seats on the nine-member board.

She shared the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Since 2006, Brown has been a professor of energy policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Before that, she worked at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managing an energy efficiency research and development program.

TVA is the nation's largest public utility serving nearly 9 million consumers in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.