Board and Management
Leadership Team
JEA’s leadership team is committed to achieving our goal of being the best utility in the nation. Please click on each leader's name to learn more about their role, background and experience.
Vickie Cavey was named JEA’s interim managing director and chief executive
officer in April 2024. A frequent counselor to JEA executive leadership and 32-year operations veteran, Cavey brings a deep knowledge of JEA in roles that have spanned organizational lines through engagement with the Northeast Florida business community,
other utilities, regulatory bodies, and elected officials.
Following her retirement from JEA in 2016, Cavey returned as special assistant for external affairs to interim CEO Paul McElroy in 2020, then assisted McElroy’s successor, Jay Stowe,
as board liaison until January 2021. She began her JEA career in 1984 as a mechanical engineer in the power engineering division, one of JEA’s first female engineers. She then advanced to managerial roles in commercial key accounts and special projects
prior to director roles overseeing strategic partnerships/acquisitions and strategy development and execution.
Cavey earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida. She has a long history of involvement
in the local nonprofit community, in which she currently serves as an advisory board member for the Stellar Academy of Engineering at Nease High School. She is also a past president and board member of the Rotary Club of Ponte Vedra Beach Foundation.
Her volunteer service in local nonprofits spans decades, including the United Way, BEAM, Mission House, PACE Center for Girls and many others.
Cavey and her husband, Dan, live in Ponte Vedra Beach.
JEA Chief Operating Officer Raynetta Curry Marshall leads all utility operations as well as the electric and water teams that provide reliable, affordable, and safe utility services to more than one million Northeast Florida residents.
With more than 35 years of experience in water resources and utility management, Marshall returned to JEA as COO in 2021. She served as general manager of the Underground Utilities & Public Infrastructure department in Tallahassee for two years. Prior to that, Marshall held several leadership roles in JEA’s water / wastewater department from 2011 to 2019.
Marshall holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering and a bachelor's in civil engineering from Howard University. Marshall serves on the boards of the Florida Municipal Power Association and the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies and previously served as president of the Florida Water Environment Association and as chair of the Water Environment Federation Utility Management Committee.
Sheila Pressley was named JEA's Chief Customer Officer in February 2021. Over her 18-year tenure at JEA, she has provided a wealth of operational and strategic leadership, including service on the extended leadership team and the Customer Experience
Business Unit executive leadership team. She has also held leadership positions in Revenue Cycle, Customer Assistance Programs, Call Center Operations, Meter Reading, and Commercial Client Relationships departments and was the Communications and Change
Manager for the Customer Care & Billing Project. Additionally she was among the team members who championed customer satisfaction initiatives that led to JEA’s 51-point improvement in the 2013 JD Power Residential Customer Satisfaction Survey.
Ms. Pressley is heavily engaged in community and civic endeavors. She has served as a JAX Chamber Trustee and serves on the board of directors for several nonprofit agencies. She is a 2019 Leadership Jacksonville graduate and volunteers her time to
support this longstanding leadership program. She is currently serving a second term as Chair of the Planning Committee for the Northeast Florida Community Action Agency (NFCAA), a nonprofit agency purposed to stabilize vulnerable households and empower
families in Northeast Florida to achieve self-sufficiency through education, employment, and advocacy. She also serves on the National Energy & Utility Affordability Coalition (NEUAC) board of directors, a nationwide organization that advocates for
the energy needs of low-income households. She is a former board member of Community Heath Charities of Florida and a past mentor with Take Stock in Children.
David Emanuel was named JEA’s Chief Human Resource Officer in February 2021. He is responsible for the development and implementation of organizational re-design efforts, talent acquisition, succession planning, compensation plans, and team member engagement efforts critical to JEA’s efficiency and productivity.
As a human resources executive with over 30 years of experience in a variety of sectors, Mr. Emanuel strives to help others navigate personnel and organizational matters in
a thoughtful, progressive and meaningful manner. He has worked globally, while learning the value of diversity of cultures. He firmly believes that while rules, policies, standards, and expectations can differ, respect for the individual cannot.
Prior
to joining JEA, Mr. Emanuel served in a number of senior leadership roles, most recently as Chief Human Resources Officer for APR Energy, a global organization responsible for designing, manufacturing, and operating emergency power sources to customers
in 35 countries internationally. He also worked as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for CIT, where he was responsible for business process redesign of all human resources in the corporate functional, operations and administration areas
across its global footprint. Additionally, Mr. Emanuel was Vice President of Global Human Resources for Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) Worldwide, where he was head of the global human resources sports and entertainment business, encompassing sports
teams, entertainment, content management, product development, and facility management for over 35 major venues around the world.
Mr. Emanuel is the Chair of the Dean’s Council at the University of North Florida, Co-Chair of the Talent Advancement
Network for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and has been a speaker for the Minority Business Roundtable for over a decade. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Wittenberg University.
Theodore B. “Ted” Phillips joined JEA as Chief Financial Officer in August 2021 and has served in the not-for-profit utility sector for more than 30 years. He leads teams that oversee finance, supply chain and procurement, fleet and facilities, cybersecurity and technology services, and fuels for Jacksonville’s community-owned utility.
Before joining JEA, Mr. Phillips led teams in finance/accounting, MIS, technical services, purchasing, stores & warehousing, fleet, and facilities for Huntsville Utilities. Previous to his work in Alabama, he worked in the public sector in North Carolina and Missouri.
Mr. Phillips earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Southeast Missouri State University. He is an active member in his community and has served on the boards of the United Way and The Schools Foundation in Huntsville, Alabama, and was a long-term leader in the Boy Scouts of America. He is treasurer of the Advisory Council of The Salvation Army of Northeast Florida and is a trustee on the Florida Chamber Foundation’s Board of Trustees and its Community Development Partnership Council.
Laura Marshall Schepis joined JEA in September 2021. As JEA’s Chief External Affairs Officer / Chief Compliance Officer, she leads teams responsible for government relations, communications, legal affairs, and electric and environmental compliance.
For over two decades, Ms. Schepis has focused on improving outcomes for energy utilities and the customers and communities they serve. In leadership positions at the American Public Power Association, the Edison Electric Institute, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, she directed advocacy, political, and communications campaigns on issues including energy efficiency, renewable resources, national security, telecommunications and climate change.
Ms. Schepis received her Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law and practiced civil and criminal law in Georgia before relocating to Washington, D.C. in 2000. She formerly chaired and now serves on the board of the National Energy Resources Organization. She also serves on the board of Downtown Vision Inc., the Greater Jacksonville Cultural Council and Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art. She and her family live in Jacksonville.
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Electric Systems
JEA is proud of its Electric System and its reputation as one of the nation’s exemplary municipal service providers. Our existing generation capacity is 3,747 MWs and our generation fleet contains a diverse resource mix.
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Water Supply
JEA delivers more than 110 million gallons of water each day to our customers. We regularly test the water we send to customers to ensure its safety, as outlined by federal and state regulatory agencies. Our state-of-the-art technology monitors our water supply grid to bring fresh, clean water to your home. We work hard to help our customers learn how to conserve Northeast Florida's most precious resource, the Floridan aquifer, so that we may continue to benefit from it for generations to come.
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Wastewater
JEA's sewer collection system handles more than 70 million gallons of wastewater every day. Our waste collection and treatment system consists of more than 3,700 miles of collection lines, over 1,200 pumping stations and fourteen sewer treatment plants.