Brett Leopold is Vice President, ITC Holdings Corp. and President, ITC Great Plains. Mr. Leopold serves as the business unit lead for ITC Great Plains, which received the Kansas Governor’s Award of Excellence in 2015. He previously was Senior Counsel and Practice Group Leader for ITC Great Plains.

Mr. Leopold joined ITC in 2008 as director of regulatory policy and attorney for ITC Great Plains, advocating regulatory objectives and legal positions before state regulators in the SPP region. Prior to joining ITC, he served as an attorney in regulatory and state government affairs positions for Sprint Corporation in Kansas, and in legal positions with law firms in Missouri and Kansas, the United States Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Kansas. Mr. Leopold has practiced law since 1993. He holds a juris doctor degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s degree with highest distinction from the University of Kansas, where he was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

Mr. Leopold currently serves on the Southwest Power Pool’s Members Committee and Corporate Governance Committee. He is a board member of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, the State Chamber of Oklahoma, the Financial Research Institute, the American Red Cross of the Capital Area, Friends of Cedar Crest and the KU Honors Program. He also is a volunteer reader for the Audio-Reader Network for Kansas and Western Missouri.