June 9, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Thomas & Betts Corp. (NYSE: TNB) said that Kenneth W. Fluke, the company’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, will retire on October 1. Vice president and controller William E. Weaver, Jr. will succeed Fluke.

Weaver, Jr., has served as the company’s controller since November 2008. Prior to joining Thomas & Betts, he was CFO for First Horizon Home Loans and MetLife Home Loans, a position he assumed in June 2006. He also spent 22 years in public accounting with KPMG and Arthur Anderse.

In a statement, Thomas & Betts called Fluke’s retirement, “a decision which reflects a planned succession.”

Memphis, Tennessee-based Thomas & Betts is a designer and manufacturer of electrical components used in industrial, commercial, communications and utility markets.

The company is also a producer of commercial heating and ventilation units and highly engineered steel structures used, among other things, for utility transmission.

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