The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, February 18, 1995            TAG: 9502180685
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: D1   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Daily Digest 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

NEBRASKA OFFICIAL TO HEAD VA. ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

Nebraska electric-power executive has been named president and chief executive officer of Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, which arranges power supplies for 12 cooperatives in Virginia and two other states. Ronald W. Watkins, 53, will begin work at the cooperative April 1. He also will become president and CEO of the Virginia-Maryland-Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives. Old Dominion and the trade association are based at the Innsbrook Corporate Center in Henrico County. Watkins has been president and CEO of the Nebraska Public Power District, that state's largest electric supplier, since May 1989. (Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News by CNB