Dominion announced Monday the retirement of Edgar M. Roach, Jr. as president and CEO of Dominion Delivery, effective Dec. 1. Roach will be succeeded by Admiral Jay L. Johnson, who joined Dominion two years ago as senior vice president-business excellence when he retired as the United States Chief of Naval Operations. The company also announced the retirement of James P. O’Hanlon as president and COO of Dominion Energy, also effective Dec. 1. O’Hanlon’s responsibilities will be assumed and divided between two Dominion senior vice presidents, Paul D. Koonce and Mark E. McGettrick. Dominion said Roach and O’Hanlon will remain active as company employees until Feb. 1 to ensure a smooth transition. Koonce and McGettrick will report to Thomas F. Farrell, CEO of Dominion Energy. Koonce will become CEO-transmission at Dominion Energy, where he will continue to oversee the company’s energy trading and will add responsibility for natural gas and electric transmission management. Gary L. Sypolt, now president of the Dominion Transmission natural gas pipeline, will add electric transmission to his responsibilities and become president of Dominion’s electric and natural gas transmission unit. Kevin T. Howell will remain president of Dominion Energy Clearinghouse. Both will report to Koonce. Dominion said McGettrick will be Dominion Energy’s president and CEO-generation and relinquish his position as president of Dominion Resources Services. He will be replaced by Mary C. Doswell, who is now vice president-billing & credit in Dominion Delivery.

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America announced Monday that former FERC Commissioner Donald F. Santa, Jr. will join the INGAA staff in December as Executive Vice President. Santa served as Majority Counsel to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the 1980s and early 90s, working on the passage of the Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992. From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, working on such major issues as Order 888 (open electric transmission access) and implementation of Order 636 (natural gas pipeline restructuring). In addition, Santa has worked as an executive at LG&E Energy Corp. and as a partner at the Troutman Sanders law firm.

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