Biographical Information

Jim Turner

Jim Turner joined the professional staff of the House Committee on Science in 1977 and returned in 1984 after three years in the private sector. He currently services as the Full Committee Chief Counsel and works across the board on the Committee's legislative agenda. Prior to 1994, Jim was the Committee's senior staff member for technology policy and a subcommittee legal counsel, including four years service as the staff director for the Technology Subcommittee. At the end of the 1970s and early 1980s, Jim worked as an energy counsel. He holds degrees from Georgetown and Yale Universities and from Westminster College, and attended the Senior Managers in Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to his work with the Committee on Science and Technology, Jim worked for Wheelabrator-Frye, Congressman Gary Myers, NASA, and the FAA.