Board of Directors

 

Philip J. Carroll, Jr.

Age: 72. Director since 1999.

Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fluor Corporation, Aliso Viejo, California (an engineering, construction and diversified services company), from July 1998 to February 2002.

Other directorships:  BAE Systems; Texas Medical Center; Envirofuels, LLC.

Committee memberships:  Compensation; Executive; Governance.

 

Phillip W. Farmer

Age: 71.  Director since 1999.

Retired Chairman of the Board of Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida (an international communications equipment company) from February 2003 until June 2003; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from June 2000 to February 2003.

Committee memberships:  Audit; Executive; Governance.

 

H. Allen Franklin

Age:  65.  Director since 2001.

Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company, Atlanta, Georgia (a super-regional energy company in the Southeast and a leading U.S. producer of energy) from April 2004 until July 2004; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from April 2001 to March 2004.

Committee memberships:  Compensation; Executive; Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs.

 

Donald M. James

Age: 60.  Director since 1996.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vulcan since May 1997.

Other directorships: Southern Company; Wells Fargo & Company.

Committee memberships: Executive.

 

Ann McLaughlin Korologos

Age: 68.  Director since 2007.

A former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Chairman of the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees since April 2004 (RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis); Senior Advisor to Benedetto, Gartland & Company, Inc. (an investment banking firm in New York) from October 1996 until December 2005.

Other directorships:  AMR Corporation; Harman International Industries, Inc.; Kellogg Company; Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

Committee memberships:  Governance; Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs.
(*)Ms. Korologos was first elected a director in 1990 and served until May 14, 2004. She was reelected a director of Vulcan by the Board of Directors on July 13, 2007.

 

Douglas J. McGregor

Age: 68.  Director since 1992.

Senior Advisor, Blue Point Capital Partners, Cleveland, Ohio (a national private equity firm), since January 2003.

Committee memberships:  Audit; Executive; Finance and Pension Funds.

 

James V. Napier

Age: 72.  Director since 1983.

Retired Chairman of the Board of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia (a manufacturer and designer of telecommunication systems, satellite-based communications networks, and instrumentation for industrial, telecommunications and government applications) from 1992 to 2000.

Other directorships:  Intelligent Systems, Inc.; McKesson Corporation; WABTEC, Inc.

Committee memberships: Compensation; Finance and Pension Funds.

 

Richard T. O’Brien

Age: 55. Director since 2008.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado (an international gold production company); President and Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2007; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2005 until 2006; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, AGL Resources, Atlanta, Georgia (a natural gas distribution, marketing and energy service company), from 2001 until 2005.

Other directorships:  Newmont Mining Corporation

Committee memberships: 

Audit; Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs

 

James T. Prokopanko

Age: 56.  Director since 2009.

President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mosaic Company, Plymouth, Minnesota (one of the world’s leading producers and marketers of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients), since 2007. From July 2006 until 2007, Mr. Prokopanko was Mosaic’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.  Prior to joining Mosaic, Mr. Prokopanko was Corporate Vice President of Cargill, Incorporated.

Other directorships:  The Mosaic Company.

Committee memberships:  Audit; Governance.

 

Donald B. Rice

Age: 70.  Director since 1986.(*)

President and Chief Executive Officer of Agensys, Inc., (a Santa Monica, California-based biotechnology company developing monoclonal antibody therapeutics for cancer, a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma, Inc.), since 1996.

Other directorships:  Chevron Corp; Wells Fargo & Company.

Committee memberships:  Compensation; Executive; Governance.

(*)Dr. Rice was first elected a director in 1986, and served until May 1989, when he was appointed Secretary of the Air Force.  He was reelected a director of the Company by the Board of Directors on February 12, 1993.

 

Vincent J. Trosino

Age: 69.  Director since 2003.

Retired President, Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, Illinois (a mutual insurance company), from 1998 until December 2006.

Committee memberships:  Audit; Finance and Pension Funds.

 

Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

Age: 52.  Director since 2009.

Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Walgreens, Deerfield, Illinois (the nation’s largest drugstore chain) since January 2010. Mrs. Wilson-Thompson was Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, The Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, MI, from July 2005 until January 2010. From 2000 until July 2005, Mrs. Wilson-Thompson was Vice President and Chief Counsel, U.S. Businesses, Labor and Employment, The Kellogg Company.

Committee memberships: Finance and Pension Funds; Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs.