Corps of Engineers names civil works division chief

A new programs director and chief has been named for the Civil Works Integration Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Divisionand the Mississippi River Commission.

Renee Turner will develop the federal budget and the fiscal year work plan for the division, which includes areas from the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

She also will work on water resources engineering solutions in a 370,000 square-mile area, extending from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and encompassing portions of 12 states.

Turner began her career with the Corps in 1983 as a design engineer working on recreation areas.

Before being named civil works division chief this week, Turner was deputy chief of the St. Paul, Rock Island and St. Louis District Support Team.