Atmos Energy Corporation Promotes Pace McDonald to Vice President of Tax

Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO) said today it has promoted Edward Pace McDonald IV to vice president of tax.

"Pace McDonald is a proven leader who has contributed exceptional expertise to our corporate tax functions and has helped ensure the highest level of accuracy and integrity in all our tax matters,” said Fred E. Meisenheimer, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Atmos Energy Corporation.

McDonald, 41, heads a department of more than 20 tax professionals who support Atmos Energy’s regulated and nonregulated operations.

He joined Atmos Energy as director, tax, in April 2002 to in-source the company’s income tax function and to consolidate into one department most of the company’s transaction tax functions, including sales and use tax, property tax and franchise tax.

McDonald began his career at Deloitte & Touche and later moved to Ernst & Young in 1997. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an accounting major and a Master’s of Professional Accounting with taxation specialization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

About Atmos Energy

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is currently the country’s largest natural-gas-only distributor, serving more than 3 million natural gas distribution customers in more than 1,600 communities in 12 states from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Atmos Energy also provides natural gas marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and municipal customers primarily in the Midwest and Southeast and manages company-owned natural gas pipeline and storage assets, including one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas. Atmos Energy is a Fortune 500 company. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com.