On June 25, 2019, Ms. Mary E. Kipp, President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of El Paso Electric Company (the Company), informed the Board of Directors of the Company that she was resigning from her positions at the Company and as a member of the Board effective August 1, 2019 to become the President of Puget Sound Energy Inc. and Puget Energy Inc. On June 28, 2019, effective upon Ms. Kipp's resignation, the Board appointed (i) Mr. Adrian J. Rodriguez, currently Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of the Company, to the role of interim Chief Executive Officer, making his title Interim Chief Executive Officer, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of the Company, and (ii) Ms. Elaina L. Ball, currently Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the Company, to the role of Senior Vice President and Interim Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Mr. Rodriguez, age 41, has served as the Company's Senior Vice President and General Counsel since May 25, 2017. Previously, Mr. Rodriguez served as an attorney in the Company's Office of the General Counsel from April 2013 to May 24, 2017.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rodriguez was an attorney in the Dallas office of Vinson & Elkins LLP. Ms. Ball, age 44, has served as the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer since April 16, 2018. Before joining the Company, Ms. Ball worked at Austin Energy, a municipally owned electric utility serving 450,000 customers in the Austin, Texas area.

At Austin Energy, she most recently held the position of Chief Operating Officer and was responsible for power generation, transmission and distribution, information technology and onsite energy resources. Ms. Ball also served on the board of the South Texas Nuclear Project electric generating station. Prior to Austin Energy, Ms. Ball served as Vice President, Technical Services at CPS Energy, a municipally owned electric and gas utility serving the greater San Antonio area.