U.S. President Joe Biden announced he intends to nominate the following individuals to serve as commissioners and bring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission back to its full five members.
His three FERC commissioner nominees are: Judy W. Chang, David Rosner and Lindsay S. See.
By statute, FERC shall be composed of five members, with no more than three from the same political party.
Chang is an energy economics and policy expert with more than 20 years of experience working with energy companies, trade associations and governments on regulatory and financial issues, particularly as they relate to investment decisions in energy transmission, clean energy and energy storage. She is the former Undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions for Massachusetts, where she led efforts to set policies across the energy sector and align strategies and plans to meet legal requirements for climate change mitigation. Chang has presented and testified before U.S. federal and state agencies and regulatory authorities in Canada on topics related to energy resource deployment; energy contracts; transmission planning, access and pricing; and electricity market design. She serves as an ambassador for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Initiative and is a founding board member of New England Women in Energy and the Environment. She holds a master of public policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Davis.
Rosner has 15 years of experience across energy technologies, market design and energy policy issues, both in and outside of government. He is an energy industry analyst for FERC, currently on detail to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Democratic staff. During his time at FERC, Rosner led efforts related to the commission’s rulemaking on energy storage resources, electric transmission, offshore wind integration, fuel security and natural gas-electric coordination. Rosner was previously a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis and an associate director at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s energy project. Rosner holds degrees in economics and public policy.
See is the Solicitor General of West Virginia, where she manages appellate and high-stakes litigation for the state. She also routinely appears before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and the Fourth Circuit, as well as other state and federal courts. In addition to managing West Virginia’s civil and criminal appellate dockets, her work focuses on regulatory and administrative law matters, and she leads and works with multi-state coalitions on a variety of national issues. See previously practiced appellate and administrative law for several years with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and clerked for the Hon. Thomas B. Griffith on the D.C. Circuit. See is the nominee recommended by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
