(LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Oct. 5) Laura Douglas, LG&E Energy's Director of Communications, has been named the University of Louisville Law School 2004 Alumni Fellow. The award is presented annually to alumni from each of the school's academic units to honor outstanding contributions to the university, profession and community.

As the distinguished law alumni, Douglas will lecture in several classes at the law school and be presented at the Harlan Lecture on Oct. 25 where Kurt Smoke, dean of Howard University Law School, will speak.

After graduating from law school, Douglas worked as an attorney for several major companies before serving as the University of Iowa's director of Affirmative Action. When she returned to Louisville, she joined the Legal Aid Society as associate director and urban managing attorney and then served as general counsel at Metropolitan Sewer District and Louisville Water Company. In 1995, she was appointed by Gov. Paul Patton as secretary of Public Protection and Regulation. She joined LG&E Energy in 2003.

Recently, American Bar Association president Robert Grey named Douglas the vice chair of the subcommittee on electricity and vice chair of the subcommittee on water for the ABA's section on Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law.

Douglas' active community involvement includes roles as chair of the Citizens Commission on Police Accountability, Speed Museum governor, and a board member of Republic Bank, Caritas Hospital, Louisville Community Foundation, Kentucky State University, Metro United Way, Family Health Center, Salvation Army Advisory Board, and the UofL Law Alumni Association.



LG&E Energy LLC, headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a diversified energy services company. LG&E Energy owns and operates Louisville Gas and Electric Company, a regulated utility that serves 312,000 natural gas and 384,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties, and Kentucky Utilities Company, a regulated electric utility in Lexington, Ky., that serves 512,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia.