Jim Walter Resources Inc.

George Richmond was named to the board in December 2006. Richmond has been chief executive officer of Jim Walter Resources, Inc. since February 2006. Prior to that, he had been president and chief operating officer since June 1997. Since he joined the company in 1978, he has moved into his current position through a series of progressively responsible roles. He is the past chairman of the Alabama Coal Association and is on the board of directors of the National Mining Association, National Coal Council and Business Council of Alabama. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom.

Mike Madden joined Jim Walter Resources in September 1996. Mike has over 20 years of experience in the coal industry. Before joining JWR he managed his own coal brokerage and consulting business in Charlottesville, Virginia. Prior to starting his own business, Mike worked for Stines Coal Company in Lexington, Kentucky where he began as Export Manager and was later promoted to Vice President, Senior Vice President, Executive Vice President and then to President.

Rodney Camp's experience in the mining industry began at an early age as he followed in his father's footsteps who operated surface mines in Alabama. He has over 25 years experience in coal mining since graduating from Auburn University in 1975 with a B.S. in Industrial Management. Rodney's experience in the industry has been primarily in self-employed ventures, the most recent of which was at Oak Mountain Energy, where he served as Vice President and equity partner. In addition to Mr. Camp's responsibilities as General Manager of Marketing, his functions also include transportation and quality control issues as well as special projects. He joined Jim Walter Resources in June 1999 and is active in the NCCI and ACCCI organizations.

At the end of World War II, eleven million young Americans returned home with dreams of starting a family, owning their own home and living a happy life. Among those millions of ordinary Americans veterans was one James Willis Walter, a tall, slender young man with broad shoulders, an open face, and a ready smile. They called him "Slim Jim" in the navy; back home in Tampa, on the west coast of Florida, he was Jimmy to his friends. Returning from four long years in the navy, he took up his pre-war job: driving a truck for his father's citrus-packing firm. His pay was $50 a week. In 1946 at the age of twenty-three, Jim Walter saw a two-line classified ad in a Tampa newspaper for an unfinished house selling for $895. He bought it and within three days sold it at a profit. He went into the business of selling unfinished houses that were to be completed by their owner, a do-it-yourself concept that made well-built homes very affordable. Over the next fifty years, his company, Jim Walter Homes, sold more than 320,000 single-family detached homes in twenty-four states - more than any other builder. The active mortgage portfolio on these homes grew to be worth more than $4 billion! From that humble beginning, Jim Walter guided the company that bore his name to more than $2.4 billion in annual sales and 25,000 employees nationwide at its peak. Jim Walter Corporation went on to diversify into building materials, marble quarries, coal mining, and water pipelines, and by the mid-1980s ranked among the two hundred largest industrial companies in the United States. Jim Walter is recognized internationally as an industrial leader. In 1960, he was named to LIFE magazine's list of the 100 Most Important Americans Under 40. In 1961, he was presented the Horatio Alger Award by the Association of American Schools and Colleges. In 1969, he was named International Prominent Citizen by the Association of Newspaper Managers. In 1973, he was awarded the Freedoms Foundation Exemplar Medal for advancing the cause of free enterprise. In 1978, he received the Harvard Business School Business-Citizen Award. In 1980, he was honored by the American Jewish Committee "in recognition of his creative leadership and dedicated efforts to enhance the quality of life in our society and to deepen a more human understanding among all Americans." In 1981, he was awarded one of Sweden's highest honors, Commander of the Order of the Polar Star, for his efforts in promoting trade and industrial development between Sweden and the United States. He has appeared on the covers of Business Week and Florida Trend, and has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, The Wall Street Journal and many other major publications. His dedication to civic and community involvement is evidenced by years of support to Boys and Girls Clubs, Goodwill Industries, The Salvation Army, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Lowery Park Zoological Gardens, Tampa General and St. Joseph's Hospitals, the Florida Council on Economic Education, and Junior Achievement, to name just a few. Jim Walter died on January 6, 2000 after complications stemming from lung cancer. He was 77 years-old.