James E. Rogers President and Chief Executive Officer
Jim Rogers is president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy.
Before the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy, Rogers served as Cinergy chairman and chief executive officer for more than eleven years. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. He served as executive vice president of interstate pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group before joining PSI. Before joining the Enron Corp., Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Immediately before joining Akin, Gump, Rogers was deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for FERC. Previously, Rogers served as assistant to the chief trial counsel at FERC, as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of state consumers in gas, electric and telephone rate cases. He was a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader from 1967 to 1970.
Rogers is currently a director for Duke Energy (and served on the Cinergy board before its merger with Duke Energy), Fifth Third Bancorp and Fifth Third Bank. He serves as first vice chairman of the board of directors, is on the Executive Committee and is chairman of the Government Affairs Committee of the Edison Electric Institute. He will become Chair in June 2006. He also serves on the boards of the American Gas Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and the National Coal Council.
Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He chaired the 1997 Greater Cincinnati United Way Campaign. He has served as director of Duke Realty Corporation, PSI Energy, Bankers Life Holding Corporation, A O Irkutskenergo (a Russian hydroelectric/coal-fired steam utility) and Indiana National Bank.
Rogers attended Emory University and earned a bachelor of business administration and a juris doctor degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society. He was named to the Hall of Fame at the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics and the Hall of Fame of the College of Law, both of the University of Kentucky. He also received an honorary doctor of law degree from Indiana State University.
He has been recognized numerous times in the past including the 1998 Hebrew Union College Cincinnati Associates Tribute Honoree, the 2004 NCCJ Distinguished Service Citation, the 2005 Keystone Center Leadership in Industry Award, the 2005 Ronald McDonald House Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2006 Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, Cincinnati Chapter.
The Birmingham, Ala., native was born in 1947. Rogers and his wife, Mary Anne, have two daughters, a son and six grandchildren.
Duke Energy is a diversified energy company with a portfolio of natural gas and electric businesses, both regulated and unregulated, and an affiliated real estate company. Duke Energy supplies, delivers and processes energy for customers in the Americas. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: www.duke-energy.com.
April 3, 2006