Hilda Pinnix-Ragland
Vice President-Corporate Public Affairs
Duke Energy
She has been an officer since 1998 and served in leadership positions for treasury & auditing, operations-construction, maintenance and restoration, customer service, communications, economic development, and strategic planning. Hilda was an auditor with Arthur Anderson and an accountant with Colgate-Palmolive, both in New York.
Board work includes: Chair-NC State Board Community Colleges-elected 4 terms, Governance Chair- American Association of Blacks in Energy, and RTI International-Audit Committee/Board of Directors. Hilda is Treasurer to the National Parks Foundation AAEF Board of Trustees and a member of the Executive Leadership Council.
She received a BS-Accounting N.C. A&T State University (magna cum laude), a MBA-Duke University and graduated from Harvard University Kennedy School of Public Policy Executive Leadership Program.