Delilah Fisher

Since taking over as director of communication services at Duke Energy in 1993, Delilah Fisher has earned a reputation as a fair, efficient, customer-oriented manager who is willing to listen to new ideas and let employees make their own decisions. That's one reason her staff nominated her for Manager of the Year, an honor she earned in 1998. Fisher has spent the last 21 years at Duke Energy, a Charlotte, N.C.-based utility. When Duke merged with Pan Energy, Fisher was given responsibility for Pan's Houston-based in-plant, as well as its video production and trade show planning functions. Fisher has been traveling to Houston