: Re: A tricky serial semi-colon A serial comma is used to separate a list of items: For breakfast, we had ham, eggs, and toast. A serial semi-colon is used when items in the list have commas:

What "feels right" to me would be leaving your paragraph just as it is, except replacing the last semicolon with a comma:

James T. Smith, vice president of widgets at WidgetCo.; Mary Holmes, chief foo officer at FoobRUs; Sheldon DeVane, head of global placeholding at RiMelioraDies Inc.; and Lisa Catera, chief lending officer at Plugitin Motors, will be speaking at tomorrow's conference.

Having said that, I haven't formally studied English, and it's not even my native language, so this is just a gut feeling - how I'd write it.

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