COLUMBUS, Ga., May 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated
announced today the appointment of Audrey
Boone Tillman as the Company's General Counsel replacing
Joey Loudermilk. Loudermilk,
who announced his pending retirement in February, will remain with
Aflac until the end of the year as a senior advisor, completing
several key projects during a transition period.
Tillman joined Aflac in January
1996 as a member of the Legal department and was promoted to
second vice president in September
1997. She was promoted to vice president and senior
associate counsel, Legal division, in September 2000. Her work as legal counsel to the
Human Resources division led to her promotion to senior vice
president, director of Human Resources in August 2001 and ultimately to her current
position of executive vice president of Corporate Services in
2008. Before joining Aflac, Tillman served as an associate
professor at North Carolina Central
University School of Law. From 1990 to 1993, she was
an associate with the Smith, Helms, Mulliss and Moore law firm in Greensboro, N.C. She also served as a federal
judicial law clerk to Judge Richard C.
Erwin, U.S. District Court for North Carolina.
"Audrey is a respected, trusted and valued member of the Aflac
family. Since joining Aflac, she has consistently
demonstrated fantastic leadership skills and her personal standards
of ethics are beyond reproach. It is a privilege to have
someone of Audrey's dedication and possessing her tremendous legal
skills in this key role, serving our employees, policyholders and
shareholders," said Aflac Chairman and CEO Dan Amos.
Tillman is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the North Carolina State Bar, the Bar
of the District of Columbia, and
is a past chair of the corporate law section of the National Bar
Association. She served as a director-at-large for the Society for
Human Resource Management (SHRM) and on Georgia Governor Sonny
Perdue's Workforce Development Task Force, part of the
Commission for a New Georgia. In 2013, she was selected by The
Network Journal as one of their 25 Influential Black Women in
Business. Named one of the Top 100 Blacks in Corporate
America by Black Professionals magazine for two consecutive
years, Tillman has also received the Office Depot Visionary Award,
which recognizes dedication, leadership ability and commitment to
achieving business success, shaping the direction of the community
and helping to improve the lives of women.
Tillman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science
from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and a Juris doctor degree from the University Of
Georgia School Of Law.
Tillman replaces Joey Loudermilk.
Loudermilk joined Aflac in 1983 as head of the Company's then
newly formed Legal Department. In 1988, he assumed responsibility
for Governmental Relations. In February
1989, he became treasurer for Aflac Incorporated's political
action committee (Aflac-PAC) and was appointed senior vice
president, corporate counsel, for Aflac Incorporated in 1989. In
1991 he was promoted to general counsel of Aflac Incorporated and
Aflac, and in 2000 became an executive vice president of the
company.
"For more than 30 years I've worked with Joey Loudermilk, a dedicated family man and
someone who works tirelessly for his community. He is a dear friend
and a consummate professional who has made a lasting impression on
all of us who know and work with him, and we are all the better for
it," said Aflac Chairman and CEO Dan
Amos.
Aflac herein means American Family Life Assurance Company of
Columbus and American Family Life
Assurance Company of New York.
About Aflac
When a policyholder gets sick or hurt, Aflac pays cash benefits
fast. For nearly six decades, Aflac insurance policies have given
policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial
stress. In the United States,
Aflac is the leading provider of voluntary insurance at the
worksite. In Japan, Aflac is the
number one life insurance company in terms of individual policies
in force. Aflac individual and group insurance products help
provide protection to more than 50 million people worldwide. For
eight consecutive years, Aflac has been recognized by Ethisphere
magazine as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies. In 2014,
FORTUNE magazine recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best Companies
to Work For in America for the 16th consecutive year. Also, in
2014, FORTUNE magazine included Aflac on its list of Most Admired
Companies for the 13th time, ranking the company number one in the
life and health insurance category. Aflac Incorporated is a Fortune
500 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
AFL. To find out more about Aflac, visit aflac.com or
espanol.aflac.com.
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Media contact – Catherine Blades,
706.596.3014 or cblades@aflac.com
Jon
Sullivan, 706.763.4813 or jsullivan@aflac.com
Analyst and investor contact – Robin Y.
Wilkey, 706.596.3264 or 800.235.2667, FAX: 706.324.6330, or
rwilkey@aflac.com
SOURCE Aflac Incorporated