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Francis Stanton "Frank" Blake is an American businessman and lawyer, who is presently the chairman and CEO of The Home Depot, having been appointed... to this position in January 2007. Prior to this he worked for the U.S. Department of Energy and General Electric. He was a longtime protege of Robert Nardelli. Blake received his bachelors degree from Harvard in 1971. He then received his JD from the Columbia Law School in 1976. In 1977 Blake married Anne McChristian. They have two children. In 2005 he remarried Elizabeth Lanier who works as general counsel for Habitat for Humanity International. From 1971–1973 Blake was a legislative assistant to the joint committee on Social Welfare of the Massachusetts legislature. He was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1978. He served as a law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Blake also served as general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , deputy counsel to Vice President George H. W. Bush. From 1991–1995 he was the general counsel for General Electric.
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Francis Stanton "Frank" Blake is an American businessman and lawyer, who is presently the chairman and CEO of The Home Depot, having been appointed... to this position in January 2007. Prior to this he worked for the U.S. Department of Energy and General Electric. He was a longtime protege of Robert Nardelli. Blake received his bachelors degree from Harvard in 1971. He then received his JD from the Columbia Law School in 1976. In 1977 Blake married Anne McChristian. They have two children. In 2005 he remarried Elizabeth Lanier who works as general counsel for Habitat for Humanity International. From 1971–1973 Blake was a legislative assistant to the joint committee on Social Welfare of the Massachusetts legislature. He was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1978. He served as a law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Blake also served as general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , deputy counsel to Vice President George H. W. Bush. From 1991–1995 he was the general counsel for General Electric.
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Donald M. James has been a board member of Wachovia since 2004.  He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vulcan since May 1997.