Former Lockheed Martin president Gordon Fee dies
Gordon Gray Fee, a longtime Oak Ridge business and community leader who served as president of Lockheed Martin Energy Systems and devoted decades to improving education in Tennessee, died Saturday, Nov. 7. He was 92. Fee spent more than 40 years in the Oak Ridge nuclear industry, rising through the ranks of Union Carbide, Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin to lead an organization overseeing major U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge, Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio. Born in 1934 in Sayre, Pennsylvania, Fee graduated salutatorian of Canonsburg High School in 1952. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics, with a minor in mechanical engineering, from Penn State University in 1956. A distinguished military graduate, he served as regimental commander of the university's Army ROTC Cadet Corps and credited that experience with helping develop the leadership skills he used throughout his career. Fee joined Union Carbide's Oak Ridge operations in 1956 as a junior physicist and development engineer at the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant. He later earned a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1962. His career included engineering, research, marketing and management positions in Ohio, New York and Tennessee. While working at Union
