CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today elected Tom Pashley to the Board of the Company.

Mr. Pashley, with long standing community ties in Piedmont's growing eastern North Carolina service area, is President of Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, a position he has held since October 2014. Mr. Pashley, who has been at Pinehurst since 1996, previously served as its Executive Vice President, responsible for sales, marketing, and communications.

Mr. Pashley began his career in 1991 as a CPA in the audit group of the Atlanta office of Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Pashley received a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with an accounting major from the University of Georgia and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Mr. Pashley is the past chairman of the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Convention and Visitors Bureau and also served as a member of the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Board. Mr. Pashley is a current member of the O'Neal School Board of Trustees.

About Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial, industrial and power generation utility customers in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, and regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage, and regulated intrastate natural gas transportation businesses. More information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/.

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