User:Kentonerwin

In 1995 he was named SW Regional Commissioner of Clan Irwin Association (a Scottish heritage association), in which position he advocated at various Scottish Highland Games events for the broader understanding of that clan in American history.

From 1995-1996 he was President of the Unitarian Fellowship of Houston, a lay-led congregation of liberal thinkers.

Attending Tulsa Memorial High School from 1973-1976, he was Class Valedictorian, Senior Class President, the winner of the 1974 Oklahoma State Math Bowl, a varsity football letterman, and President of the Latin Club.

At Vanderbilt University's School of Engineering from 1976-1980, he had a full-cost James William Stewart Merit Scholarship.

He then attended Vanderbilt's School of Law, graduating in 1982. From 1982 through 1987 he worked at the Hall Estill law firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then at The Williams Companies from 1987 through 1991 (where he was one of the two first in-house attorneys in that company's unregulated businesses). From 1991 through 1997 he was Staff Counsel at Destec Energy (a majority-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company), where he helped invent two new forms of energy transaction structures: a natural gas sharing pool among various electric generating facilities (which reduced the risk of penalties for failure to take a prescribed minimum quantity); and a power marketing enterprise using a uniquely-negotiated Control Area Transmission Services Agreement with PG&E, which allowed Destec to enter into a power marketer's first full-requirements contract to supply a city with its electric needs. From 1997 through 2003 he was Assistant General Counsel at Enron in Portland, Oregon, where