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James L. Turner Executive Vice President of Cinergy and CEO of the Regulated Businesses Unit
James L. (Jim) Turner is Executive Vice President of Cinergy Corp. and Chief Executive Officer of the Regulated Businesses Unit. In this role, Mr. Turner is responsible for all operations related to the transmission and distribution – or delivery – of gas and electricity on the Cinergy system. This responsibility includes Electric Operations, Gas Operations, Operations Services, Financial Operations, Billing, and Customer Services. In addition, Mr. Turner continues to be the company's chief representative to state policymakers and regulators in Cinergy's three operating states of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Mr. Turner is a member of the Ohio State Board of Education, having been appointed by Governor Bob Taft in February 2000 to a term that expires at the end of December 2004. In addition, he is a member of the board of the Ohio Electric Utility Institute, a trade organization representing Ohio's investor-owned electric utilities. He also serves on several non-profit boards, including Talbert House, the Cincinnati Opera, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Museum Center of Cincinnati, and the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati.
Prior to joining Cinergy in 1995, Mr. 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. His representation included assistance in coordinating the Indiana Industrial Energy Consumers, Inc. (“INDIEC”), a group of 34 industrial customers in the state of Indiana.
Before joining Lewis & Kappes, Mr. Turner served as the Indiana Utility Consumer Counselor from 1991-1993, a gubernatorial appointment with responsibility 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 (NASUCA).
From June 1984 through January 1991, he was employed as an attorney in the Indianapolis law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, where he was elected to partnership in October 1990.
Mr. Turner received a B.S. Degree from Ball State University, Indiana, in 1981 and a J.D. Degree, cum laude, from the Indiana University School of Law in 1984. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in June 1984. In May of 2001, Mr. Turner completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Turner and his wife, Leah, have three children: Selena, Shannon, and Joshua.
