MISO has named Kari Bennett as its new executive director of external affairs — the third person to take on the position in less than five years.

Bennett joined MISO in December 2013 as senior corporate counsel and most recently served as the RTO’s senior director of program strategy. She previously served as a commissioner on the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.

Indiana’s inspector general cleared Bennett’s move to MISO after determining it would not violate the state’s revolving door policy because she would not lobby the commission in her new role.

Bennett replaces Michelle Bloodworth, who served in the post for just over a year. Bloodworth started a firm, MAB Consulting, in Birmingham, Ala.

John Shepelwich served as MISO’s director of external affairs from October 2011 to June 2013 before returning to AEP Virginia to assume the role of communications manager.

— Amanda Durish Cook