Date: November 22, 2006
Source: WCA Waste Corporation
WCA Waste Corporation Appoints Moore and Singleton to Its Board of Directors
WCA Waste Corporation (Nasdaq:WCAA) today announced that on November 21, 2006 its Board of Directors approved the appointment of Preston Moore, Jr. and the Honorable John V. Singleton as directors of WCA Waste Corporation.
Preston Moore is a 1954 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Moore has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Business Products, Systems & Services, Inc., and later as President of Wilson Industries. Mr. Moore was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration for the United States Department of Commerce from 1990 through 1992. From 1995 through 1998, Mr. Moore served as a Director of TransAmerican Waste Industries, Inc. Mr. Moore currently serves as a director of Volcano Therapeutics, on the Advisory Council of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and on the James A. Baker School of Public Policy Leadership Committee at Rice University.
Judge Singleton is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and obtained his license to practice law in the State of Texas in 1942. Mr. Singleton served as a Gunnery Officer in the United States Navy from 1942 until 1946. Mr. Singleton practiced law in Houston, Texas until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to serve as a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. In 1979 Judge Singleton was appointed Chief Judge of the Southern District, and took senior status in 1988. Judge Singleton retired from the bench in 1992. From 1995 through 1998, Judge Singleton served as a Director of TransAmerican Waste Industries, Inc. Judge Singleton currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Central National Bank in Houston, Texas.
WCA Waste Corporation is an integrated company engaged in the transportation, processing and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. The Company's operations consists of twenty landfills, twenty-one transfer stations/material recovery facilities and twenty-four collection operations located throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Company's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol "WCAA."
For more information, contact:
Tommy Fatjo
WCA Waste Corporation
(713) 292-2400
www.wcawaste.com.
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