Board of Directors

1. JUANITA POWELL BARANCO 4. THOMAS A. FANNING 6. VERONICA M. HAGEN 8. LINDA P. HUDSON 11. DALE E. KLEIN 13. STEVEN R. SPECKER Executive Vice President Chairman, President and CEO Lead Independent Director Founder, Chairman and CEO Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Retired President and CEO and Chief Operating Officer Southern Company Board The Cardea Group University of Texas System Electric Power Research Institute (energy) Baranco Automotive Group (automobile sales) , GA | Age 59 | elected 2010 Retired President and CEO (business management consulting) Associate Director The Energy Institute Scottsdale, AZ | Age 70 | elected 2010 Atlanta, GA | Age 67 | elected 2006 Other directorships: Federal Reserve Polymer Group, Inc. (engineered materials) Charlotte, NC | Age 65 | elected 2014 at the University of Texas at Austin Board committees: Nuclear/Operations (chair), Board committee: Audit of Atlanta (chair), Vulcan Materials Company Laguna Niguel, CA | Age 70 | elected 2008 Board committees: Governance, Nuclear/ Retired Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Compensation and Management Succession Other directorships: None  Board committees: Compensation and Operations, Business Security Subcommittee Commission (energy) Other directorship: Trilliant, Inc. 5. DAVID J. GRAIN Management Succession, Nuclear/Operations Other directorships: Corporation, Austin, TX | Age 68 | elected 2010 2. JON A. BOSCIA Founder and Managing Partner Other directorships: Newmont Mining Corporation, Ingersoll Rand, Inc. Board committees: Governance, 14. LARRY D. THOMPSON Founder and President Grain Management, LLC (private equity firm) American Water Works Company, Inc. Nuclear/Operations, Business Security Incoming Lead Independent Director 9. DONALD M. JAMES Subcommittee (chair) Boardroom Advisors LLC Sarasota, FL | Age 53 | elected 2012 Southern Company Board (effective May 2016) 7. WARREN A. HOOD, JR. Other directorships: Pinnacle West Capital (board governance consulting firm) Board committees: Compensation and Retired Chairman and CEO John A. Sibley Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Corporation, Arizona Public Service Company Sarasota, FL | Age 63 | elected 2007 Management Succession, Finance Chairman and CEO Vulcan Materials Company The University of School of Law (attorney) Board committee: Audit (chair) Other directorship: Gateway Bank Hood Companies, Inc. (construction materials) Atlanta, GA | Age 70 | elected 2014 12. WILLIAM G. SMITH, JR. Other directorships: None of Southwest (packaging and construction products) Birmingham, AL | Age 67 | elected 1999 Board committees: Finance, Governance Chairman, President and CEO Hattiesburg, MS | Age 64 | elected 2007  Board committees: Governance (chair), Finance Other directorships: Graham Holdings Company, Capital City Bank Group, Inc. (banking) 3. HENRY A. CLARK III Board committee: Audit Other directorship: & Company Franklin, Templeton Series Mutual Funds Tallahassee, FL | Age 62 | elected 2006 Senior Advisor  Other directorships: Hood Companies, Inc., Board committees: Compensation and Evercore Partners Inc. BancorpSouth, Inc. 10. JOHN D. JOHNS 15. E. JENNER WOOD III Management Succession, Finance (chair) (corporate finance advisory firm) Chairman and CEO Corporate Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking Other directorships: Capital City Bank Group, Inc., Protective Life Corporation (insurance) SunTrust , Inc. (banking) New York, NY | Age 66 | elected 2009 Capital City Bank Board committees: Compensation and Birmingham, AL | Age 64 | elected 2015 Atlanta, GA | Age 64 | elected 2012 Management Succession (chair), Finance  Board committee: Audit Board committees: Governance, Other directorships: None Other directorships: Protective Life Corporation, Nuclear/Operations Regions Financial Corporation, Genuine Parts Other directorships: Oxford Industries, Inc., Company Genuine Parts Company

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