More than a century after California voters created the Public Utilities Commission to keep powerful companies in check, the commission has lost its way – and Californians are fed up, writes CalMatters contributor Loretta Lynch, a former CPUC president.
Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch is a San Francisco-based lawyer, regulatory expert and a former president of the California Public Utilities Commission. She was a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Goldman Public Policy School and a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies. Loretta clerked for Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and is a first-generation graduate of the University of Southern California and Yale Law School.