Loretta Lynch

Loretta Lynch served as President of the California Public Utilities Commission and is currently one of five Commissioners charged with regulating telecommunications, energy, commercial transportation, and water companies. 

Born in Independence, Missouri, Ms. Lynch is a graduate of the University of Southern California and Yale Law School.  She clerked for the Honorable Dorothy W.  Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as class action counsel for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

Ms. Lynch has worked in key roles in a number of political campaigns, including Van de Kamp for Governor (1990), Clinton for President (1992), Dianne Feinstein for U.S. Senate (1992), and Delaine Eastin, California Superintendent of Public Instruction (1994). Ms. Lynch also volunteered for Ellen Taucher’s first Congressional campaign (1996) and for Gray Davis’s 1998 campaign for Governor.

Prior to her appointment to the Public Utilities Commission, Ms. Lynch was the Director of Governor Davis’s Office of Planning and Research. Before entering public service, Ms. Lynch was a partner in the litigation firm of Keker & Van Nest, where she represented corporate clients and individuals from technology and industrial sectors.

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