Jerry Paul
Contact:
University of Tennessee
Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Center for Public Policy
1640 Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-4014
Office: 865.974.0931
Fax: 865.974.8777
Email: jpaul@capitolenergy.net
Bio: Jerry Paul is an active participant in academic, governmental and private sector activities related to energy policy. He serves as the Distinguished Fellow on Energy Policy, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy.
Mr. Paul, a nuclear engineer and attorney, formerly served as the elected representative of Florida’s 71st district in the Florida House of Representatives where he served as Deputy Majority Whip, chaired the House Subcommittee on Environment Regulation and chaired the House Subcommittee on Environmental Appropriations. Additionally, he served on the committees of Energy, Appropriations, Business Regulation, Natural Resources and Public Security. His primary areas of policy focus have been energy, environment, national security and homeland security. He is well-recognized both in Florida and Washington as a leading voice on energy policy and government’s role in energy transformation.
As a practicing attorney and member of the Florida Bar for 10 years, Mr. Paul was a partner in the law firm of McKinley, Ittersagen, Gunderson and Bernttson, P.A.
Mr. Paul formerly served as America’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Appointed by President Bush in February 2004 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he was responsible for coordinating all activities of the NNSA at 3 National Laboratories and 5 production facilities in the U.S. along with foreign offices in Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing and serving as the senior official at the U.S. Department of Energy mission at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) United Nations (UN) offices in Vienna, Austria (2004-2006). .
As COO, he managed the NNSA enterprise which includes its budget of $10Billion and 37, 000 federal, military and contractor personnel charged with carrying out the national security responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Energy including: 1) Ensuring the reliability, security and safety of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons complex; 2) Reducing the global threat of nuclear proliferation and the spread of weapons of mass destruction; 3) Providing the U.S. Navy with safe, efficient nuclear propulsion power plants for its nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier fleet; and 4) Responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and worldwide.
In 2004, he was selected to serve as the NNSA Central Technical Authority (CTA), which is the senior decision authority for technical nuclear safety decision making throughout the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex.
Mr. Paul currently serves as an appointed member of the Congressionally-authorized, National Academy of Sciences Study Committee for the Evalutation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainty (QMU) Methodology Applied to the Certification of the Nation’s Nuclear Weapons Stockpile.
He formerly served in the maritime shipping field both in the U.S. Merchant Marine and in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1989-1996 as a Commissioned Special Duty Engineering Reserve Officer. He has worked as a reactor engineer and power plant operator at fossil and nuclear power plants.
He has served as a member of the U.S. Dept. of Energy Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee and as the Florida representative for both the Southern States Energy Board and the National Conference of Legislators Committees on Environmental and Natural Resources.
Mr. Paul holds a law degree from Stetson University College of Law, a bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from the Merchant Marine Academy in Castine, ME, and a post-baccalaureate degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida.
Mr. Paul and his wife Kristy reside in Florida with their two children, Jared and Lauren.
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