Ruth G. Shaw Email & Phone Number

Ruth Shaw retired from Duke Energy Corporation in April 2007, and continued to serve as Executive Advisor to the company until May 2009. She had previously served as Group Executive for Public Policy and President, Duke Nuclear; as President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Power Company; and as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, among other roles. She also served as President of The Duke Energy Foundation from 1994–2003. Prior to joining Duke Energy in 1992, Dr. Shaw was a leader in community college education, serving as President of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC and as President of El Centro College in Dallas, TX.Dr. Shaw is an active civic and industry leader. She currently chairs the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a research university with over 20,000 students. She also chairs the board of The Carolinas Thread Trail, which is developing an interconnected trail system in piedmont North and South Carolina. She serves on the board of visitors for Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. She chaired the board for the national Center for Energy Workforce Development, and headed an executive task force on community relations and incident response for the Nuclear Energy Institute.From 1990 until 2008, Dr. Shaw served on the Board of Directors of Wachovia Corporation, where she chaired the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and served on the Governance Committee. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of DTE Energy. Dr. Shaw was elected to the Dow Chemical Company Board of Directors in July 2005, and serves on the Compensation Committee and the Environment, Health & Safety Committee.Dr. Shaw holds a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) and a Master of Arts degree in English from East Carolina University, and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a University Fellow.

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