ATLANTA, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southern Company President Tom Fanning announced today that Stacy Kilcoyne has been named vice president, human resources, for Southern Company.

In her new role, Kilcoyne will oversee all human resources activities for the company, including compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, operations, employee and leadership development and diversity and inclusion.  Kilcoyne brings more than 30 years of experience to the position.

"Stacy's another excellent example of how we build our leadership and develop our people from within," said Fanning.  "She has the knowledge, experience and skills to ensure that we do a good job of managing our most valuable resource – our people.  We must continue to attract, train and retain the best and most diverse group of individuals that we can if we expect to remain successful."

Kilcoyne joined Southern Company in 1977.  She progressed through varying degrees of supervisory and management positions in human resources, becoming an HR business team leader in 1999 and then, in 2006, director of human resources for Southern Company's generation group, adding the transmission organization to those duties in 2008.

She is a native of Dutton, Alabama.

With 4.4 million customers and more than 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier energy company serving the Southeast.  A leading U.S. producer of electricity, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications.  Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices below the national average.  Southern Company is consistently listed among the top U.S. electric service providers in customer satisfaction by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).  Visit our Web site at www.southerncompany.com.

SOURCE Southern Company