Trump names Memphian to TVA board
Mitch Graves is the CEO of West Cancer Center and a current member of Memphis Light Gas and Water’s board of commissioners. He has been nominated by President Donald Trump to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
TVA board members are nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Trump fired three board members this spring, leaving the board without a quorum.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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