Most Powerful Women

Lynn Good

  • 2020 Rank
    16
  • Company
    Duke Energy
  • Title
    CEO and President
  • Age
    55
  • Industry
    Utilities
In February 2014, seven months after Good became the first female CEO to lead Duke Energy, the company spilled as many as 39,000 tons of coal ash in North Carolina. Crisis management has kept Good busy, as has investing in Duke's renewable-energy unit.