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Middle Georgia
Chapter News & Events:
The
Middle Georgia Chapter of GSPE is pleased to
present:
2012
E-Week Luncheon
We will be having our E-Week Luncheon on
Friday, February 24th. Please
mark your calendars to attend.
Presented by:
Mercer University School of Engineering
and Middle GA Chapter of GSPE
Date:
Friday, February 24,
2011 (Registration beginning at 11:15 a.m.)
(Program starts
at 12:00 p.m.)
Location:
Mercer University–Macon,
University Center, President’s Dining Room
Keynote Speaker:
Mr. Judson Turner, Director—Environmental
Protection Division
*Formal Invitation
with more details to follow.
Mr.
Jud Turner
Judson H. Turner was
appointed Director of the Environmental Protection
Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources effective Jan.1, 2012.
Mr. Turner was former
Gov. Sonny Perdue’s executive counsel and also
served as the then-governor’s legal representative
in negotiations with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
regarding drought operations at the federal
reservoirs of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
(ACF) and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) river
basins.
Since serving as executive counsel, Mr. Turner has
served both Governors Perdue and Nathan Deal as
special executive counsel in negotiations between
the states of Alabama, Georgia and Florida related
to the ACF and ACT basins and on matters involving
Georgia’s other shared river basins.
Mr.
Turner is a founding partner of the law firm
Turner, Bachman & Garrett LLC and Georgia360 LLC,
a multidisciplinary public affairs firm.
He
also served as general counsel to the Georgia
Department of Education from 2003 to 2005 and
worked in a general commercial litigation practice
at Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP in Birmingham
prior to his government service.
Mr.
Turner received his law degree from the University
of Virginia and his undergraduate degree from the
University of Georgia, where he was president of
the Student Government Association, graduating Phi
Beta Kappa with highest honors in political
science and economics.
The
Albany native and his wife, Courtney, live in
Griffin with their two children.
Under Georgia law, the EPD Director is appointed
by the Board of Natural Resources with the
approval of the Governor.
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