Meredith Lackey has been named chief compliance officer (CCO) for utility firm Southern Company.
Lackey was previously executive vice president of external affairs and nuclear development for Georgia Power, one of Southern Company’s businesses. In that role, which she was appointed to in June 2020, she led Georgia Power’s policies and activities in governmental and regulatory affairs, community and economic development, corporate communications, environmental affairs, regional external affairs, land management, pricing and planning and nuclear development.
Before taking on that position, Lackey had been senior vice president, general counsel, CCO and corporate secretary for Georgia Power since October 2016. In that role she oversaw the company’s corporate compliance, risk management, security and legal services functions.
Lackey was vice president and general counsel, CCO and corporate secretary at Colonial Pipeline Company from 2012 to 2016, leading the company’s legal, compliance, internal audit, government and regulatory affairs and information technology teams.
Before joining Colonial in 2008, Lackey was director of human resources and earlier litigation counsel at Imerys. Before moving in-house, she was a general commercial litigator at Jones Day and Baker Botts.
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Ben Maiden is the editor-at-large of Governance Intelligence, an IR Media publication, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. Ben was previously managing editor of Compliance Reporter, covering regulatory and compliance...
