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Robert (Bob) B. Schwentker is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation (NCEMC).
Bob supervises corporate legal services, human resources, power supply contracts development, wholesale rate proceedings, litigation and environmental matters for NCEMC.
He also serves as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives (NCAEC). In this capacity he oversees trade association activities including lobbying and government relations; training and education; public relations; safety; publications and corporate event planning.
Prior to joining NCEMC, his practice concentrated in representation of electric membership cooperatives at the firm of Crisp, Davis, Schwentker, Page and Currin in Raleigh, N.C.
Bob earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973.
He has served as an instructor for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s legal seminars and has spoken at a number of other conferences on issues concerning the electric utility industry.
Bob is on the board of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry and the Electric Cooperative Bar Association, and is a council member of the American Bar Association Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law. | 