Kelly Mader

Kelly Mader is the Vice President of State Government Affairs at Peabody Energy. Peabody Energy, previously Peabody Coal Company, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world. In 2006, Peabody sold over 247 million tons of coal. The company's coal fuels approximately 10% of the electricity generated in the United States and 3% of electricity generated throughout the world. According to a biographical sketch appearing on the National Association of Attorneys General website, Mader "formerly served in the Wyoming legislature between 1984 and 1991, first as a state representative then as a state senator. During his time as state senator, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee and co-chaired the Joint Appropriations Committee."

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Mader has been involved with ALEC for decades. He is Peabody's representative on the Corporate ("Private Enterprise") Board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as of 2011. In August 2011, he was given ALEC's 2011 Private Sector Member of the Year Award. In 1986, when he was a Wyoming State Senator, he was the ALEC State Chairman of Wyoming.