David WadeEPB President David Wade will succeed Harold DePriest as head of the city-owned electric utility.
EPB directors today elected Wade to serve as CEO of EPB, effective Sept. 1.
Wade, a 33-year engineer at EPB, will become only the seventh leader of EPB since its creation by the city of Chattanooga in 1938 as one of TVA’s biggest power distributors.
Wade, who helped develop EPB’s community-wide fiber optic network, was previously elected president and chief operating officer of EPB in February. He joined EPB in 1983 as a line helper and has served in a variety of management posts over the past three decades.
DePriest, 67, has headed EPB for the past two decades and is retiring next month after 45 years with the utility.