Frank S. McCullough, Jr.
Chairman

Frank S. McCullough, Jr. was elected chairman of the New York Power Authority (NYPA) by his fellow trustees on April 28, 2006. Mr. McCullough has been a Power Authority trustee since July 1997 and served as the Authority’s vice chairman from June 2002 until his election as chairman.

He is also chairman of the New York State Economic Development Power Allocation Board, which reviews applications and makes recommendations for allocations from certain power programs administered by the Power Authority, and is a board member of the Seaway Private Equity Corp., which provides Power Authority funding to promote high-tech job development in St. Lawrence County.

Mr. McCullough, a prominent attorney and a resident of the City of Rye, is senior partner in the law firm of McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt, LLP, with offices in White Plains. He has practiced law in Westchester County since 1968 and has been a partner in his firm since 1972. His practice focuses on administrative law in the land use and development field.

His numerous civic activities in Westchester County have included service as a member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of New York United Hospital, a division of New York Hospital; the Pace University School of Law Board of Visitors; the Board of Trustees of Greenwood Union Cemetery; and the Board of Directors of Village Bank, which he also served as general counsel.

In addition, he has served as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Westchester Golf Classic; president of the Board of Trustees of St. Vincent’s Hospital, Westchester Division, the Rye Historical Society and the Rye Lions Club; and a member of the Iona College Advisory Board of Trustees.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Westchester Community College since 1985, with service as the board’s president from 1987 to 1990 and as chairman from 1990 to 1993 

Mr. McCullough is a 1965 graduate of St. Lawrence University and received his law degree from Albany Law School of Union University in 1968. He is a former confidential law secretary to New York Supreme Court Justice Elbert T. Gallagher.

Mr. McCullough is married to the former Coralene Fellows and they have three children and seven grandchildren.