James K. Turner

Jim Turner has recently retired following a prestigious career on Capitol Hill. Turner served for over ten years - including the entirety of the 110th Congress - as the Chief Democratic Counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology. He was recently the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) audit for Don Beyer in the Obama Transition Team. Turner has also served as staff director on the Technology Subcommittee from the formation of the committee until the Republican takeover of the House in 1994. He was also the lead staffer for NIST for ten years, Counsel and legislative assistant to Congressman Gary A. Myers, and a Legal Writing and Research Program Director at Georgetown University Law Center.

Key legislative achievements while on the Hill include the America Competes Act (2007), Small Business Innovation Research Program reauthorizations (1987 to 2001) and the Bayh-Dole Act Amendments (1984). Turner has received a number of prestigious awards including the Ronald L. Brown 2008 Standards Leadership Award. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2008.

Turner is currently a trustee of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. He is on the Board of Directors at the American National Standards Institute, and at Scientists and Engineers for America. He is on the advisory board of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a Journal published by MIT Press.