James L Turner

Most recently, Turner served as group executive and president of U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, where he had oversight for the company's customer service, legislative and regulatory strategy, wholesale operations and economic development in the five states it serves. Before joining Cinergy in 1995, Turner was employed as a principal in the Indianapolis law firm of Lewis & Kappes, P.C., representing industrial customers in state utility commission proceedings as well as before the Indiana General Assembly. Before joining Lewis & Kappes, Turner served as the Indiana Utility Consumer Counselor from 1991 to 1993, leading a state agency responsible for representing all classes of Indiana consumers of electricity, natural gas, telephone, water and sewer services. In 1992, he served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates. From 1984 to 1991, he was employed as an attorney in the Indianapolis law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman (now Bingham McHale), where he was elected to partnership in 1990. Turner serves on the board of directors of EnerNOC Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC), a publicly traded energy management company focused on using technology to help customers manage energy demand. He also serves on the board of the Electric Power Research Institute. Active in his community, Turner serves on the boards of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and Charlotte Center City Partners. From 1999-2004, he also served as a member of the Ohio State Board of Education. Turner received a bachelor of science degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and a juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School; the Leadership at the Peak Program at the Center for Creative Leadership; and the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at MIT.