Jim Lochhead has been Denver Water’s CEO/manager since 2010. Denver Water’s 1,100 employees provide the water necessary to sustain 1.5 million customers in Denver and the surrounding suburbs. Denver Water’s system is supplied by surface water from over 4,000 square miles of watershed in the Colorado and South Platte river basins. Before joining Denver Water, Lochhead was in private law practice, dealing with natural resource issues throughout the United States and internationally. He was also executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and for over 20 years represented the state of Colorado on interstate Colorado River operations. Lochhead is a recipient of the Wayne N. Aspinall Water Leader of the Year award by the Colorado Water Congress and the President’s Award from the Colorado Foundation for Water Education.