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Carmel Woman Wins Con Edison Award

CARMEL, N.Y. – A Carmel woman recently won Con Edison’s prestigious Living Our Values Award.

Michelle Hicks, of Carmel, recently won Con Edison’s prestigious Living Our Values Award.

Michelle Hicks, of Carmel, recently won Con Edison’s prestigious Living Our Values Award.

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Michelle Hicks, a third-generation Con Edison employee, joined the company in 1983.

She started as a customer service representative in Yonkers and now is an energy services manager in Rye.

David DeSanti, general manager of energy services at Con Edison, said in a press release that Hicks makes customer service a priority.

“When you see Michelle do her job, you know right away that she considers it a privilege to serve our customers reliably and with courtesy,” DeSanti said. “The customers’ interests come first for Michelle in every decision she makes.”

He also noted that she has helped many women advance in the company through advocacy, encouragement and mentorship.

Hicks, a lifelong Carmel resident, is active in the Hamlet of Carmel Civic Association. She has also coached basketball and softball for the Carmel Sports Association, as well as basketball for the Catholic Youth Organization at St. James the Apostle Church.

Hicks’ grandmother, Mae Cunniff, and Hicks’ father, Ronald Hicks, both spent decades working for Con Edison before they retired from their jobs.

“My parents instilled the importance of family, faith, integrity and hard work in everything that my sisters, MaryEllen (Odell, Putnam county executive) and Laura, and my brother Brian and I did,” Hicks said in a press release. “I am delighted to be honored with the Living Our Values Award because it signifies that I am a reflection of everything my parents taught me. It is because of my parents that I have become the person I am today.”

When Michelle Hicks was in seventh grade, her mother took her and her siblings to a road in Mount Kisco to watch their father working on overhead electrical lines for Con Edison.

“I remember when we got there we saw the Con Edison trucks and my mother said, ‘There’s your father up there,’” Hicks said in a press release.

“I was so proud to see my dad in action. I thought he was so amazing up on the cross-arm in his Con Edison gear.”

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