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UNITED STATES

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Atmos Energy Corporation

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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on February 4, 2015.

 

  

ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION    

 

  

 

Meeting Information            

 

     

Meeting Type:         Annual Meeting

     

For holders as of:   December 10, 2014

     

 

Date:  February 4, 2015

 

 

  Time: 9:00 a.m. CST

     

Location:  Charles K.Vaughan Center

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 3697 Mapleshade Lane

 Plano, TX 75075

 

 

ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION

C/O AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER

6201 15TH AVENUE

BROOKLYN, NY 11219

   

 

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               Voting Items                        
 

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote
FOR the following listed nominees:

  
 

 

1.      ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

  
 

         Nominees:

  

The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3.

 

2.      Proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2015.

 

3.      Proposal for an advisory vote by shareholders to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers for fiscal 2014 (“Say-on-Pay”).

  
 

 

1a.    Robert W. Best

       
 

 

1b.    Kim R. Cocklin

       
 

 

1c.    Richard W. Douglas

       
 

 

1d.    Ruben E. Esquivel

       
 

 

1e.    Richard K. Gordon

       
 

 

1f.     Robert C. Grable

       
 

 

1g.    Thomas C. Meredith

       
 

 

1h.    Nancy K. Quinn

       

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1i.     Richard A. Sampson

       
 

 

1j.     Stephen R. Springer

       
 

 

1k.    Richard Ware II

       
         
         


 

  

 

  

 

 

 

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