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Commissioner

pic_landis    LARRY S. LANDIS
   Appointment: Commissioner
   Appointed: December 17, 2002, by Governor O'Bannon
   Term: Expires December 31, 2011
   Party: Republican








Larry S. Landis, a Republican, was founder and President of Marketrends, Inc., a marketing/communication company in Indianapolis; and cofounder of American Grassroots LLC, prior to being appointed to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in January 2003 by Indiana's late Governor Frank O'Bannon (D-IN). He was reappointed to a full term by former Governor Joe Kernan (D-IN) in July of 2004 and reappointed by Governor Mitch Daniels in December of 2007. In August, 2003, he was named to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) Telecommunications Committee and is active in a number of roles on that Committee. Landis served on NARUC's Legislative Task Force, charged with developing recommendations for a rewrite of the nation's telecommunications laws, was Vice Chair of NARUC's Intercarrier Compensation Task Force, was appointed to the Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services in January, 2005 and is a member of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service. Landis is the only state Commissioner currently holding both a Joint Conference and a Joint Board appointment from the FCC.

In 1967, he worked as a campaign aide to Richard G. Lugar, who was then running for his first term as Mayor of Indianapolis. (Lugar now serves as Indiana's Senior U.S. Senator). In 1968, he was Research Director for the U.S. Senate campaign of William D. Ruckelshaus, who later became the first Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to serve under two Presidents; Nixon and Reagan. From 1969 to 1971 he served as Assistant to the Mayor in the Lugar administration, and in 1972 he was Campaign Manager of William N. Salin's Primary bid for what was then the 4th Indiana District Congressional seat. After the Primary, he was named Press Secretary for the successful first-term gubernatorial campaign of then-Speaker of the House Otis R. Bowen, M.D.

In late 1972, he became Director of Marketing Services for the advertising agency which had handled Bowen's campaign, holding similar positions with it and another agency for 8 years. He also served 4 years as Vice President of Corporate Advertising for American Fletcher National Bank (later Bank One Indiana and now part of JP Morgan Chase) from 1980 to 1984. From 1985 through 1991, Landis was Vice President/Account Planning, blending research, market intelligence and strategic planning to inform the agency's creative direction for clients such as Indiana Bell (now AT&T Indiana), at Handley & Miller, Inc.

Landis' civic involvements include the Governor's Ad Hoc Committee on Educational Finance (1972-73); Life member (1991-), former Member of the Board of Trustees (1995-2004) and member of the Executive Committee (1996-1999, 2001-04), Indiana



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