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James C. Yardley is president of Southern Natural Gas Company (SNG) and SNG’s subsidiary, Southern LNG Inc., which owns the Elba Island LNG facility. Yardley assumed his current role in 1998. He is also chairman of Citrus Corporation (50% El Paso) that owns Florida Gas Transmission.
Yardley has been with Sonat and El Paso since 1978 and has held various roles in the company’s pipeline business, offshore drilling business, and corporate staff. He has been based in Birmingham, Houston, and London.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Duke University and Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.
Yardley is on the boards of Junior Achievement of Greater Birmingham, Inc.; United Way of Central Alabama, Inc.; and the Greater Alabama Council, Boy Scouts of America.
He has been married for 28 years and has three grown children. | 