Lisa Cohen Cooper, Class of 1979

Lisa graduated from Syracuse University in 1983 and the Syracuse College of Law in 1985. She started her career in environmental law with Nixon Hargrave in Rochester. She then moved to Raleigh, NC to work for Carolina Power/Progress Energy (which became Duke Energy) from1993 to 2007 where she served as associate general counsel then Director of Environmental Health and Safety and finally as VicePresident. Her next venture was as CEO and general counsel of PMI Ash Technologies, which specializes in the conversion of coal ash into building materials. She was the first female chair of the American Coal Ash Association.