ADA, Okla., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. , today announced that Duke R. Ligon was elected to our Board of Directors at today's annual shareholders' meeting. Mr. Ligon was also appointed by the Board to the Nominating and Compensation Committees. Shareholders also re-elected Messrs. Grunebaum and Aldridge to the Board of Directors and they will continue their existing committee assignments.
Ligon recently retired as senior vice president and general counsel for Devon Energy Corporation, brings more than 35 years of legal expertise in corporate securities, litigation, governmental affairs and mergers and acquisitions and is currently serving as executive director of the Love's Entrepreneurial Center at Oklahoma City University as well as strategic advisor to the Oklahoma based Love's Travel Stores. Prior to joining Devon in 1997, he practiced law for 12 years and last served as a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in New York City. In addition, he was senior vice president and managing director for investment banking at Bankers Trust Co. in New York City for 10 years. Ligon received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Westminster College and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
Mr. Grunebaum, currently an independent investment banker and corporate consultant, was the Managing Director of Fortrend International, an investment firm headquartered in New York, New York, a position he held from 1989 until the end of 2003. Mr. Grunebaum also serves as a director of StoneMor GP, LLC the general partner of StoneMor Partners LP and Lucas Energy, Inc. Mr. Aldridge retired as a professor from Northeastern Oklahoma A & M College in Miami, Oklahoma in 2002 where he had been an instructor since 1982 and has been and remains an independent insurance agent. He has served as a director of our wholly-owned subsidiary, Pre-Paid Legal Casualty, Inc. since 1991.
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