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George C. Freeman III joined Universal Leaf Tobacco Company in 1997. Prior to that time he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard S. Arnold Circuit Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; a law clerk for the Honorable Lewis F. Powell Jr. Associate Justice United States Supreme Court; and an associate with Hunton & Williams an international law firm. Mr. Freeman was elected General Counsel and Secretary of Universal Corporation in February 2001 and Vice President in November 2005. On December 12 2006 the Board of Directors of Universal Corporation elected him to succeed Mr. Allen B. King as President of Universal Corporation.
Mr. Freeman is a Director of the Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Health Service and a Director of the Delta Waterfowl Foundation. He is also a former Director of the James River Association.
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