Greer C. Tidwell

Biography
[EPA press release - February 10, 1988]

EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas has named Greer C. Tidwell to be the new Regional Administrator for EPA's Region 4, headquartered in Atlanta. He succeeds Jack E. Ravan, who resigned in August.

Tidwell has been president of his own environmental management, planning and engineering company in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1974. He has served as chairman of the Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Control Board and been involved in developing new technologies and approaches to wastewater treatment for municipalities and industries. From 1971-74, he was chief of the EPA Tennessee-Kentucky Liaison Office in Nashville and from 1964-71 he held progressively responsible positions with the Tennessee Valley Authority in Tennessee and Alabama, including supervisor of the Special Projects Staff and chief of the Environmental Assessment Staff.

Thomas said, "Greer Tidwell has over 25 years of experience in environmental planning and engineering that well equip him for the job of regional administrator. I welcome him to the EPA management team and look forward to working with him."

A native of Tennessee, Tidwell, age 48, holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in sanitary engineering from Vanderbilt University and is a registered professional engineer. He completed a year of graduate study at Harvard University as a fellow of the National Institute of Public Affairs.

Greer C. Tidwell

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