SHOULTZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF INDY READS’ BOARD OF DIRECTORS

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Indianapolis-based law firm of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP is pleased to announce that Nikki Gray Shoultz has been elected president of the board of directors of Indy Reads.

Indy Reads, a nationally recognized entity, exists to improve the reading and writing skills of adults in Marion County who read at or below the sixth grade level.

A resident of Plainfield, Shoultz is a partner in the Utility Group, representing clients in all types of matters involving the telecommunications, e-commerce, water, sewer, gas, and energy industries. She represents clients before administrative regulatory agencies on such issues as certificates of territorial authority (CTAs), rate cases, service territory disputes, billing disputes, interconnection agreements, and regulations governing Indiana public utilities.

Additionally, Shoultz litigates competition-related disputes under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Shoultz serves as Indiana counsel for several national telecommunications carriers and several Indiana payphone providers. She also advises clients on other telecommunications issues including regulation of Voice Over Internet Protocol (“VOIP”), Broadband Over Power Lines (“BPL”), wireless carriers, and internet commerce issues.

Shoultz serves as counsel to landowners in areas exploring wind farm development, and has assisted developers, customers, municipalities and utilities with zoning and service territory disputes, water and sewer capacity issues, customer specific contracts, main extension agreements, annexation, and real estate transactions. She has appeared in state and federal court and lobbied before the Indiana General Assembly on a number of utility related issues. Shoultz served as counsel for the City of Indianapolis in its contested acquisition of the Indianapolis Water Company before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.

Prior to going into private practice, Shoultz practiced for four years with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission as Chief Administrative Law Judge, General Counsel, and Assistant General Counsel. Shoultz obtained her bachelor of arts degree from Butler University and her law degree from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.

Bose McKinney & Evans provides a full-range of legal services to privately owned businesses, publicly traded companies, high-tech organizations and governmental entities. The firm’s offices are located in downtown Indianapolis, in Meridian Corporate Plaza Two on the north side of Indianapolis, in West Lafayette, Ind., in Northwest Indiana, in Raleigh, N.C. and in Washington, D.C. Bose McKinney & Evans is a member of ALFA International, a worldwide network of law firms. The firm’s Web address is www.boselaw.com..
 

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