Marc E. Manly Group Executive, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Marc Manly is a group executive, chief legal officer and corporate secretary for Duke Energy. He leads the office of general counsel, which includes legal, internal audit, ethics and compliance, information technology and enterprise operations services.
 
Manly has served as group executive and chief legal officer for Duke Energy since April 2006. He assumed the additional responsibility of corporate secretary in December 2008. Previously, Manly served as executive vice president and chief legal officer of Cinergy Corp., a position he held since November 2002. He was responsible for the company’s strategy and position on all legal matters.

From 2000 to 2002, Manly was managing director for law and governmental affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary at NewPower Holdings Inc., a national retailer of electricity and natural gas to the residential market. Before his position with NewPower, from 1995 to 2000, he was with AT&T Corp. first as vice president and solicitor general, and then as vice president and chief counsel for the consumer services group. Prior to joining AT&T’s legal department, Manly was a member of the law firm of Sidley & Austin, as an associate from 1978 to 1985 and as a partner from 1986 to 1994.

Manly earned a juris doctor degree, magna cum laude, and a master of economics degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif. He also earned a bachelor of arts degree, summa cum laude, in economics from Amherst College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.

Manly and his wife, Colby Chapman, have two children.

Duke Energy, one of the largest power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately 4 million customers in the Carolinas and the Midwest. The company also distributes natural gas in Ohio and Kentucky. Its commercial power and international businesses operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including a growing renewable energy portfolio. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.

July 20, 2009