Piedmont Natural Gas' Kathy Craven-Snodgrass Receives National Associate of the Year Award from National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kathy Craven-Snodgrass, a Piedmont Natural Gas sales representative in Winston-Salem for 19 years, received the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Associate of the Year Award during this year's NAHB annual convention in Orlando, Florida.

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The NAHB Associate of the Year Award is a national award recognizing those associate members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding service and contributions to the Home Builders association, the housing industry and their community. Ms. Craven-Snodgrass is the first winner from North Carolina since the mid-1980s.

Having chaired multiple committees on the local, state, regional and national levels including the 2006 NAHB Associate Members Committee, Kathy was inducted into the Associate Hall of Fame in 2000 as one of five leading national associates of the year. The North Carolina Home Builders Association submitted her name for this most recent honor and award.

"If you're going to keep up with Kathy, you'd better put on your running shoes because she doesn't waste a minute," said Ranelle Warfield, Piedmont Natural Gas Vice President - Sales & Marketing. "She's teamwork in action. Kathy stays in contact with all the Piedmont folks in the business, service and distribution departments and maintains an extensive network of several hundred heating contractors and builders -- all to give the best possible service to her customers and to her builders."

"Kathy uses all the tools and resources available to her," continued Warfield. "She cares about Piedmont Natural Gas, her community and is passionate about the home building industry. With only two classes left to complete, she is earning her Certified Graduate Associate designation with the NAHB. Recently, Kathy also achieved the NAHB Life Directorship. She works for Piedmont every minute of every day. Her home building and gas industry network of contacts refer to her as the 'Gas Girl' and it shows in everything she does."

About Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation. More information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/.