Senator Turner earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine and continued his academic career there with graduate work in Chemical Engineering.

Senator Turner began his professional career with IBM where he held a variety of management positions. In 1985 he joined Casco Northern where he served as Head of Banking Operations/Services; Information Technology; and was President of FirstPay. In 1991, he joined BankBoston where he headed Regulatory Assurance and later was Chief of Staff for the New England Banking Group.  He was a principal in a corporate-wide redesign effort that focused on information technology to enhance revenue and root out impediments to organizational efficiencies. In 1999, Senator Turner became the principal of Knight Financial Advisors.

Turner’s community activities have included two terms on the Falmouth Town Council.