Partner Presented with Lifetime ECBA Award

Tisinger Vance is pleased to announce that one of its partners, Richard G. (Dick) Tisinger, Sr., was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Electric Cooperative Bar Association (“ECBA”) for his dedication to electric cooperatives throughout the state of Georgia and nationwide.  The award--the highest of the ECBA awards-- recognizes those who have gone above and beyond expectations in advancing the electric cooperative program among attorneys, cooperatives, and their boards of directors.

Throughout his 40-year career representing electric membership corporations (“EMCs”), Mr. Tisinger has applied his vast knowledge of cooperative law and utility regulation to his efforts in developing and building partnerships between NRECA member cooperatives and its attorneys.  Mr. Tisinger, along with partner Steve Minor and associates Kristin Dial and Rob Walker, provide legal services to Georgia EMC and a number of EMC’s throughout Georgia, as well as GRESCO Utility Supply and Southeastern Data Cooperative.

ECBA is a network of nearly 700 attorneys nationwide representing the interests of NRECA member cooperatives.  Mr. Tisinger is a charter member of ECBA and served numerous years as a member of its Board of Directors.