Paula A. Flowers

Vice President

Paula A. Flowers is Vice President of Genera Energy. She manages the construction and operation of Tennessee’s Solar Farm demonstration, a centerpiece of Governor Bredesen’s $62 million Tennessee Solar Initiative. The new Solar Initiative is modeled after the successful Biofuels Initiative, integrating large scale demonstration of solar power production at the Solar Farm with the Tennessee Solar Institute, a joint research effort at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
 

Flowers is a lawyer, specializing specializing in regulatory and administrative law with a focus on regulated industries, insurance, energy and environment issues.
 

Prior to joining Genera, Flowers was a Senior Risk Advisor to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In January 2003, she was appointed by Governor Phil Bredesen as the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI). She served as Commissioner of TDCI throughout Governor Bredesen’s first term of office, from 2003 to 2007, before returning to the practice of law. While serving as Commissioner, she chaired the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Receivership and Insolvency Task Force as well as NAIC’s Earthquake and Seismic Activity Subworking Group and the Antifraud Task Force. She was a member of the NAIC’s Financial Regulation Accreditation Committee, and she served as Vice Chair of the Worker’s Compensation Task Force.
 

She also previously practiced as a litigator with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis PLLC and Farmer & Luna, PLLC in Nashville, TN. During this time she served as a Special Deputy Receiver and Special Counsel to TDCI for insurance company rehabilitations and liquidations. She also served as the City Attorney for Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.
 

Prior to her government service and legal career, Flowers worked as an environmental compliance engineer for Lockheed Martin Energy Systems at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge.

Flowers received a BS in Civil Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1990. In 1991, she received her Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She received her law degree, summa cum laude, in 1997 from the University of Tennessee College of Law. While in law school, she was a member of the Tennessee Law Review, a member of the Environmental Moot Court Team, and President of the Environmental Law Association.
 

She is married and has three sons.