Fran Forehand

Fran Forehand serves as vice president of Georgia Power’s Northeast Region, where she leads the company’s operations for 368,000 customers in a 39-county area that includes Augusta, Athens,Gainesville and Milledgeville. In this role, Fran is responsible for power delivery, engineering, customer service, sales, economic and community development, and external affairs activities.

Forehand was named to her current position in April 2014. Before that, she served as Georgia Power’s East Region vice president where she led the company’s operations for 155,000 customers in a 13-county area that included Augusta, Thomson and Waynesboro. In addition, she served as Georgia Power’s Metro North Region manager, where she led the company’s service to 327,000 customers in Gwinnett, Forsyth, north Fulton and north DeKalb counties.

Forehand began her Southern Company career at Alabama Power in 1991 as an engineering co-op student and came to Georgia Power in 1996, where she has served in various transmission leadership roles including transmission maintenance center manager in the Metro Atlanta and Middle Georgia areas, transmission project management manager, land acquisition manager, transmission line maintenance and support supervisor and Augusta transmission maintenance center supervisor. Forehand earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama and an MBA in finance from Augusta State University.

In the community, Forehand is chair of the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. She also serves on several boards, including the United Way of the CSRA, CSRA Alliance for Fort Gordon and the Augusta University Health Center board of directors. She is also an active member of the eight chapters of the Citizens ofGeorgia Power in Northeast Region.