Leigh Davis is Vice President for Economic and includes leadership roles in the Governmental Community Development at Alabama Power Relations, Environmental Affairs and Economic Company, an electric utility that provides reliable, and Community Development. affordable electricity to more than 1.4 million customers. She leads a team responsible for Earlier in her career, Davis served as Counsel economic, community and commercial business in Southern Company’s Washington, D.C., development across the state. office, focused primarily on industrywide environmental litigation and energy policy. Prior to assuming her current role, Davis was She also served as the Compliance and Support Vice President for Customer Manager at Alabama Power’s Services, responsible for Plant Miller during the design, integrating critical aspects of construction and operation customer experience, including of major environmental the use of technologies and technologies. research, to support residential, business and industrial Davis holds a bachelor’s degree customers. in commerce and business administration from the Davis’ prior experience includes University of Alabama and a her role as Senior Vice President juris doctor degree from the and Deputy General Counsel University of Alabama School for Southern Company Services, of Law. She also is a graduate of which provides administrative the MBA program at Samford and operational services to all University. Davis completed Southern Company operating a yearlong fellowship in the divisions. In that position, she Leigh Davis International Women’s Forum was responsible for generation Vice President executive development program energy policy; compliance and as part of a global partnership legal strategy for the company’s for Economic with Harvard Business School generation, transmission, and Community and INSEAD, as well as an engineering and construction Development, Alabama executive education program in services; system planning; Power Company corporate finance at the Wharton research and environmental School of the University of affairs; and competitive Pennsylvania. generation business units. As General Counsel for Southern Nuclear Operating A native of Birmingham, Davis is active in her Company, Davis also had responsibility for the community. Currently, she serves on the boards Corporate Communications, Legal, Compliance of the Alabama Department of Archives and and Employee Concerns departments. History, Ascension Alabama, YWCA Central Alabama, McWane Science Center and the In addition, Davis has served as Vice President University of Alabama at of Charitable Giving for Alabama Power, as Birmingham’s O’Neal President of the Alabama Power Foundation and Comprehensive Cancer as Executive Director of the Alabama Business Center. She is also Co-Chair Charitable Trust. She also has held executive of the Board of Overseers leadership positions in Technology and Real at Samford University. Estate. Her broader external affairs experience .