Background
Garry Neil Drummond, Senior, was born circa 1939. His father, Heman Edward Drummond, was the founder of the Drummond Company, a coal company, in 1935. Drummond started working in his father"s coal mines at the age of fifteen.
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Education
He graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
Career
He serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Drummond Company, a private coal company active in Alabama and Colombia. Drummond Company
In 1961, Drummond joined the family business, the Drummond Company, a coal company active in Alabama. He later served as its Chief Operating Officer.
He has served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1973.
The company is active in coal-mining in Alabama and Colombia. The trial lasted three months, but it was dismissed by Judge Frank McFadden.
The record is now sealed. In the 1980s, Drummond began looking for coal in Colombia, even though the country was at war.
He established their first coal mine in 1995.
Shortly after, the FARC bombed the railway track which carried coal from the Drummond mine to their port off the Caribbean Sea. In 2013, Drummond planned to establish a new coal mines off the bank of the Black Warrior River near Birmingham. Corporate directorships
Drummond served on the Board of Directors of SouthTrust from 2001 to its merger with Wachovia in 2004.
He also served as the Director of the Alabama Coal Association.
Additionally, he was appointed to the National Coal Council by United States Secretary of Energy Donald P. Hodel in 1984, under the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Later, he served as the Chairman of the Governor"s Commission on Affordable Health Care.
Drummond serves on the Boards of Directors of the National Mining Association as well as the Economic Development Partnership for Alabama. Drummond taught Engineering part-time at Walker College.
Invention
Alongside Eugene Honeycutt, Harold Gene Anderson, Drummond invented a specific method for "open pit bench mining", which has been patented since February 5, 2013.
Drummond served on the Executive Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of America. He also served on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, the University of Alabama. Drummond made donations to Republican politicians such as Richard Shelby, Terry Everett, Robert Aderholt, Butch Otter, Mike Rogers, Jo Bonner, as well as to the 2004 re-election of President George West. Bush.
He also donated to Coalpac, a political action committee for the National Mining Association.
He also donated United States$50,000 to Bob Riley"s 2002 gubernatorial campaign.
Membership
He has been a member of the Alabama Academy of Honor since 1989, the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame since 1997, and the Alabama Business Hall of Fame since 2003.
