Jeannie Henry

Vice President & Deputy General Counsel - Chief Compliance Officer NiSource

Jeannie Henry joined NiSource Inc.—one of the largest fully regulated public utility companies in the United States—in 2023 as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel - Chief Compliance Officer. She leads the company’s centralized compliance, ethics, business continuity, and policy management functions, and chairs both the Compliance & Ethics Committee and the Policy Committee. Jeannie brings more than two decades of legal and compliance experience, including extensive international leadership roles across publicly traded and private companies such as The Hertz Corporation, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, and TAG – The Aspen Group. In these roles, she oversaw global ethics and compliance programs, litigation, enterprise risk management, business continuity and crisis management, policy governance, corporate investigations, and third party diligence processes. Before moving in house, Jeannie practiced as a litigator, handling trials in state and federal courts and arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law, studied international law at the University of Cambridge, and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma.