D.L. Lemmon Selected President Of Colonial Pipeline

ATLANTA, Ga. — The board of directors of Colonial Pipeline Co. has selected David L. Lemmon, currently president of Amoco Pipeline Co. in Oak Brook, Ill., to succeed Donald R. Brinkley as president and chief executive officer of Colonial Pipeline Co. 

Lemmon, who has served on Colonial’s board of directors since 1990, will report to his new assignment in Atlanta on Nov. 1 to begin the transition. Brinkley, who will retire at the end of 1997, was named president of Colonial in 1987. 

Atlanta-based Colonial is the nation’s largest-volume refined petroleum pipeline system. With 1996 annual revenues of $574.5 million, it daily transports more than 80 million gallons of gasoline, aviation fuel, home heating oil, diesel fuel and national defense fuels from Gulf Coast refineries to marketing terminals in the Southeast and along the Eastern Seaboard. 

A native of Afton, Wyoming, Lemmon was appointed president of Amoco Pipeline Co. in 1990. 

He was employed by Amoco in 1965 at Salt Lake City, Utah, and has served in a number of capacities within Amoco. He joined Amoco Pipeline Co. in 1977 as Kansas City area operations manager. From 1988 to being named president of Amoco Pipeline in 1990, he served as manager-corporate planning for Amoco Corp. 

A graduate of the University of Utah with a degree in accounting, he has done post-graduate work at Governor State and Northwestern Universities in Illinois. 

He currently serves as vice chairman of the American Petroleum Institute’s Pipeline Transportation Executive Committee, and an Executive Committee member and past chairman of the Association of Oil Pipe Lines. He is also a member of the board of directors of Chicap Pipe Line Co. 

He is active in charities in Illinois, including the Boy Scouts of America. 

Mr. Lemmon and his wife Diane, who currently reside in Naperville, Ill., have five children.