Nomination of John B. Waters To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority

The President today announced his intention to nominate John B. Waters to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 1993. He would succeed Simon David Freeman.

Since 1961 Mr. Waters has been a general partner in the law firm Hailey, Waters, Sykes, and Sharp in Sevierville, TN. He is also president of the Tennessee Bar Association. In 1969-1971 he was Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Since 1978 he has been a member of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Authority. He has served as a member of the Governor's Committee on Economic Development (1971), the State of Tennessee Industrial and Agricultural Commission (1971), and was representative for the State of Tennessee to the Southern Growth Policy Board (1971-1975).

He graduated from the University of Tennessee (B.S., 1952; J.D., 1961). He is married, has two children, and resides in Sevierville, TN. He was born July 15, 1929, in Sevierville.