Annalisa M. Bloodworth is the President and CEO of Oglethorpe Power Corporation. With nearly two decades of experience in the energy industry, she is recognized for her ability to build and motivate teams, identify innovative solutions for new and long-standing challenges and provide strategic oversight in a cost-effective manner with uncompromising ethics.
Annalisa uses her gift for building relationships and bridging differences to deliver results and help others find ways to do the same. With a passion for the companies, people and communities she serves, she has a track record of successfully charting a course through unique, first-of-their-kind and mission-critical challenges.
In addition to energy, her experience includes significant work in commercial development, real estate, timberland management, regulatory compliance, contracting and procurement. Annalisa served as a member of the Project Management Board for the first two new nuclear units to be built in the United States in the last three decades, the last of which was completed in 2024 at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant located near Waynesboro, Georgia.
Annalisa joined Oglethorpe in 2010 from the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan (now Eversheds Sutherland). She is a former law clerk to the Honorable Julie Carnes, then of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and now of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and a former intern to the Honorable Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Prior to practicing law, she was an economist for Lukens Energy Group in Houston, Texas.
Annalisa holds a B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from Trinity University and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif.
Annalisa serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors for Murphy Harpst Children’s Center in Polk County, Georgia. She previously served as President of the Emory Law School Alumni Board, the national electric cooperative’s Generation & Transmission Lawyer’s Association and Georgia’s EMC Counsel Association. Annalisa is a member of Leadership Georgia’s Class of 2016 and Leadership Atlanta’s Class of 2023.