217:, as a systems auditor. Pinnix-Ragland was the only female auditor and person of color on her team at Progress Energy. She moved from auditing to the treasury, and was later appointed as a vice president of economic development, vice president of energy delivery services, and vice president of the northern region for the company. Pinnix-Ragland was the first African-American woman to serve as a vice president within the company. After Progress Energy merged with
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American Association of Blacks in Energy's James E. Stewart Award. In 2008 she received the North Carolina 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012 she was listed as one of the Top 100 Influential Women in Corporate America by
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African-American woman to the board of directors by Bill Kavanuagh, and later became an officer of the board. She also serves as the Vice Chair of Progress Energy's Corporate Diversity Council.
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on her family's angus farm, the daughter of Llyod Lee Pinnix and Irene Miles. Her family had been
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