Myra C. Bierria is senior vice president and chief administrative officer for Southern Company Gas and president of the Southern Company Foundation. Serving as chief of staff to the chairman, president and CEO, she has responsibility for the company’s Corporate Communications, Corporate Impact and Facilities. Southern Company Gas is a subsidiary of Southern Company.  

Previously, Bierria was vice president of Southern Company Services, corporate secretary of Southern Company and president of the Southern Company Foundation. In that role, she was responsible for all corporate governance matters as well as shareholder services. Prior to that, she served as vice president and corporate secretary for Southern Company Gas (formally AGL Resources Inc.). Bierria joined the company in 2002 as corporate governance and securities counsel and was appointed corporate secretary in 2005.
 
Prior to joining Southern Company Gas, Bierria was a business and technology attorney at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in New York, where she specialized in securities offerings, venture capital transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
 
Bierria is a member of the New York State Bar and the Southeastern Chapter of the Society for Corporate Governance Professionals, for which she served as past president and an advisory committee member.

She is an independent board member, chair of the Sustainability committee and a member of the Audit and Governance committees of Evolution Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: EPM), an independent energy company that owns and invests in oil and natural gas properties.  

In 2023, Bierria was elected as a fellow of The American College of Governance Counsel. She is a 2023-2024 fellow of the International Women’s Forum. She served as president of the Society of Governance Professionals, chaired the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, and chaired the Development Committee of the board of trustees of the Fernbank Natural History Museum.
 
Bierria received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.