El Paso Electric CEOs since 1925, when the company took its present name:
● Tom Walker, February 1925 to April 1927.
● Joseph Bowes, April 1927 to November 1928.
● Frank Gannon, November 1928 to April 1931.
● Montelle Smith, April 1931 to June 1936.
● Roy Nelson, June 1936 to July 1947.
● Erwin Will, March 1942 to July 1947.
● E. Carter Womack, July 1947 to July 1956.
● William Holik, July 1956 to July 1963.
● E. Ray Lockhart, July 1963 to October 1971.
● Dennis Lane, October 1971 to May 1975.
● Evern Wall, May 1975 to February 1989.
● David Wiggs Jr., March 1989 to April 1996.
● Jim Haines, May 1996 to November 2001.
● Gary Hedrick, November 2001 to May 2007.
● Ershel Redd Jr., May 2007
to February 2008.
● J. Frank Bates, interim, February 2008 to November 2008.
● David Stevens, November 2008 to January 2012.
● Tom Shockley, January 2012 to December 2015.
● Mary Kipp, December 2015 to August 2019
● Adrian Rodriguez, August 2019 to September 2020
● Kelly Tomblin, September 2020 to November 2026
● Eliecer Viramontes, starts November 2026.
Sources: El Paso Electric, El Paso Times archive.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: As CEO No. 22 arrives, look at El Paso Electric's past leaders
