Background
Lynn Good grew up in Fairfield, Ohio. Her father was a math teacher and later became a high school principal.
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Education
Good is an Ohio native and graduated from Miami University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis and in Accounting (1981).
Career
She also sits on the board of directors as vice-chairman. She earned degrees in accounting and systems analysis from Miami University of Ohio. Good became an auditor at the Cleveland branch of Arthur Andersen & Company while at Andersen Good "broke the barrier to females playing major roles in auditing when she participated in the audit of Andersen"s most prestigious account, Cincinnati Gas & Electric.
Good rose to supervise that audit, and in 1992 she became one of Andersen"s few women partners.
She was also a partner for a time at Deloitte. The United States Justice Department indicted Arthur Andersen for its role in the collapse of Enron in 2002.
As a result almost all of Good"s savings were lost. In 2003 Good joined Andersen"s old audit client, now called, for half the salary she took at Andersen.
In 2006 Duke Energy purchased, and Good went on to head the unregulated commercial business.
Good was named Duke"s executive vice president and chief financial officer as of July 2009. She began to make large investments in renewable energy such as wind and solar facilities that sell their power to utilities and towns. In 2011 Duke of Charlotte and Progress Energy of Raleigh agreed to merge.
The deal stipulated that Progress Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson was to replace Duke Chief Executive Officer Jim Rogers.
But in June 2012, on the day that the deal closed, the board fired Johnson and re-hired Rogers instead. North Carolina regulators, shocked by this turn of events, told Duke they had to choose a new Chief Executive Officer by the middle of 2013.
Good was given the job. Lynn Good became Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy on July 1, 2013.
Membership
Good was a member of the board of the Cincinnati Ballet for about eight years in the 1990s-2000s.
