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Chairman Alan B. Minier
Governor Freudenthal
appointed Alan B. Minier to the Public Service
Commission on November 17, 2008. Before then, Al was
Chairman of the State Board of Equalization, where
he had served since March 1, 2003.
Al practiced law in
Cheyenne from 1980 to 2002, emphasizing civil
litigation and administrative law. He was admitted
to all state courts in Wyoming, the Federal Court in
Wyoming, and the Eighth and Tenth Circuit Courts of
Appeals. When Al first moved to Wyoming in 1978, he
joined the staff of Governor Ed Herschler.
Al graduated from
Yale in 1970 and Harvard Law School in 1973.
Term Expires
March 1, 2015 |
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Deputy
Chairman Steve Oxley
Educated at Cheyenne Central High School,
Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in English from the
University of Wyoming, Juris Doctor from Georgetown
University Law Center (teacher of legal writing and
research).
Private law practice in Cheyenne from 1977 to
1983, concentrating on municipal finance, corporate
and real estate law. Admitted to Wyoming courts,
Federal District Court in Wyoming and the United
States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Since
1983, served with the Public Service Commission,
most recently as Chief Counsel from 1996 to 2007.
Appointed to the Commission by Governor Dave
Freudenthal, effective March 1, 2007, and has served
as Deputy Chairman since then.
Active in regional and national electric utility
regulatory and planning activities, including
membership in the Steering Committee and Founders
Group of the Northern Tier Transmission Group (NTTG)
and as Wyoming's regulatory representative to the
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
and serves on its Member Representatives Committee.
Member of the National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners Committee on Electricity.
Active in the Committee on Regional Electric Power
Cooperation (CREPC). Served as member of the CREPC
Transmission Regulatory Policy Group, and as a
member of the Steering Committee of the Rocky
Mountain Area Transmission Study (RMATS).
Term Expires March 1, 2013 |
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Commissioner Kathleen A. “Cindy” Lewis
Commissioner Lewis
earned her law degree from the University of Wyoming
in 1984, after graduating cum laude from the State
University of New York at Buffalo in 1981. She has
practiced law for over 20 years. Just prior to her
June 2004 appointment to the PSC, she served as
executive director of the Wyoming Board of Parole.
She was a senior staff attorney for Legal Services
for Southeastern Wyoming, assistant bar counsel for
the Wyoming State Bar, executive secretary and legal
counsel for the State Board of Equalization and
clerk for Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Marilyn S.
Kite. In August 2005 she was elected Deputy Chairman
by her fellow Commissioners and in March 2006 she
became the first woman to be elected to the position
of Chairman since the Commission’s inception in
1915.
Commissioner Lewis was a
member of the National Association of Regulating
Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Electricity Committee
from 2005 – 2007 during which time she was a member
of the FERC’s West Region Joint Board on Economic
Dispatch, and co-chaired the NARUC Electricity
Committee’s working group on EPACT 05 modifications
of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.
Chairman Lewis was also Chairman of the Western
Conference of Public Service Commissioners
Electricity Committee from 2005-2006 and is
currently serving on the Western Governor’s
Association’s Western Renewable Energy Zones (WREZ)
Steering Committee. Chairman Lewis was also a member
of the NARUC Committee on Telecommunications from
2007 to 2008, and is currently a member of the NARUC
Committee on Gas and the Subcommittee on Clean Coal
and Carbon Sequestration.
Term Expires
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