Four TVA Board Nominees Confirmed by U.S. Senate

The United States Senate voted to confirm four Trump administration nominees to the TVA Board of Directors on Thursday, December 18. 

Mitch Graves and Jeff Hagood of Tennessee; Randall Jones of Alabama; and Arthur Graham from Florida, were confirmed as part of a  package of 97 presidential nominees who were confirmed on party lines by a 53-43 vote.

A fifth nominee, Nashville businessman Lee Beaman, stalled in the Environment and Public Works committee after the committee postponed a vote on his nomination earlier this month. 

The swearing in of the four confirmed nominees in January will restore the board to a quorum in advance of the scheduled February 11 board meeting to be held in Hopkinsville, Ky.