Myrna M. Soto, senior vice president of Comcast Corp., and Deborah H. Butler, executive vice president of Norfolk Southern Corp., have been elected to CMS Energy's board of directors, effective January 22, 2015. They also are joining the board of directors of Consumers Energy. Soto has served since 2009 as senior vice president and chief infrastructure and information security officer for Comcast.

She is responsible for enterprise information and infrastructure security strategy, focusing on the protection of customer data, security of enterprise and delivery infrastructure, and all technology compliance-related activities. Butler has served since 2007 as executive vice president of planning and chief information officer of Norfolk Southern. Soto will serve on the Audit Committee and Governance and Public Responsibility Committee for the CMS Energy and Consumers Energy boards.

Butler will serve on Compensation and Human Resources Committee and Finance Committee for both boards.