CMS Energy Shareholders Re-elect 11 Members to Board of Directors

JACKSON, Mich., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shareholders re-elected 11 incumbents to CMS Energy's Board of Directors during the company's annual meeting today.

The board members re-elected were Kenneth Whipple, chairman of CMS Energy and its principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy, and David Joos, president and chief executive officer of CMS Energy and chief executive officer of Consumers Energy, and the following independent directors: Merribel S. Ayres, Jon E. Barfield, Richard M. Gabrys, Philip R. Lochner Jr., Michael T. Monahan, Joseph F. Paquette Jr., Percy A. Pierre, Kenneth L. Way, and John B. Yasinsky.

Shareholders also approved a proposal ratifying PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P., as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2007.

CMS Energy is a Michigan-based company that has as its primary business operations an electric and natural gas utility, natural gas pipeline systems, and independent power generation.

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