Ken Heitz, 65, a member of El Paso Electric's board since it emerged from bankruptcy in 1996, died in Los Angeles Monday of cancer.
An attorney in Los Angeles, Heitz "has been a key member of the Board since the Company's emergence from bankruptcy in 1996 and played a pivotal role in the Company's return to prosperity," Michael Parks, vice chairman of the EPE Board, and Eric Siegel, chairman of the executive committee, said in a statement.
In addition to graduating with honors from UCLA, Heitz was a basketball player on three NCAA championship teams with classmates Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor at the time), guard Lucius Allen, and forward Lynn Shackelford.
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Ken Heitz, chairman of the board of El Paso Electric, died July 9 in Los Angeles, California, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 65 years old. Heitz served as a member of EPE 's board since EPE's emergence from bankruptcy in 1996 and was named chairman of the board in 2008. ...
