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Myra Coleman Bierria was appointed corporate secretary and securities counsel at AGL Resources in February 2005. She is responsible for all corporate governance and securities law compliance and disclosure matters.
Bierria previously served as executive director, corporate governance and securities counsel for the company. She was the lead governance counsel for AGL Resources subsidiary Atlanta Gas Light when it was honored with the Georgia Business Ethics Award in 2004.
Before joining AGL Resources in 2002, Bierria was a business and technology associate at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in New York, where she specialized in securities offerings, venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representation.
Bierria is a member of the New York state bar and serves on the Georgia State Bar diversity program steering committee. She also is a member of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and serves on its in-house counsel and mentor program planning committees, the American Bar Association and the Atlanta Bar Association. Bierria was recently selected to serve a two-year term as an ambassador for the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Bierria also is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, where she is president and advisory committee member for the Southeastern chapter, the Society�s third largest chapter and a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, where she serves as a board member of the Georgia chapter. In 2006, Bierria received the Atlanta Business Chronicle�s 40 under 40 Up and Comer Award.
Bierria serves on the boards of the AGL Resources Inc. Private Foundation, Aid Atlanta, Inc. and The Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia, Inc.
Bierria received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
She and her family live in Atlanta. | 