Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has been highlighted in the article “Ten People Who Made a Difference in the South” by Southern Business & Development magazine. The article cites his economic know-how, as well as his popularity.
” . . . When Earl Ray Tomblin stepped into the West Virginia governor’s office, the state’s economy took off,” Mike Randle writes. “In 2011, West Virginia was home to the second-best job growth in the U.S. and No. 1 in the South and first in export growth nationwide.”
Also included in the article are Dan DiMicco, executive chairman of Nucor steel; John Correnti, an Arkansas entrepreneur; J. Wayne Leonard, a Louisiana energy innovator; Michael Hecht, the president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc.; Mike Eades, a Louisiana economic developer; Agnes Zaiontz, a major part of the Mississippi-based Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority; Glen Fenter, the president of Mid-South Community College; Texas Governor Rick Perry and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.
To read the excerpt, click here.
