Former Commissioners of the
California Energy Commission

A list of all Commissioners can be downloaded as a 20 kb Microsoft Excel file.

Former Chairs of the California Energy Commission

• Karen Douglas (term: 2/5/2008 to 2/5/2011)
• Jackalyne Pfannenstiel (term: 6/2006 to 12/17/2008)
• Joseph Desmond (term: 5/10/2005 to 5/10/2006)
• William J. Keese (term: 3/1997 to 3/30/2005)
• Charles R. Imbrecht (term: 2/1983 to 1/1997)
• Russell L. Schweickart (term: 7/1979 to 2/1983)
• Richard L. Maullin (term: 1/1975 to 8/1979)

Former Vice Chairs of the California Energy Commission

• James D. Boyd (term: 6/2006 to 1/2012)
• Jackalyne Pfannenstiel (term: 2/2005 to 6/2006)
• David A. Rohy, Ph.D. (term: 5/1995 to 4/2000)
• Sally Rakow (term: 2/1991 to 3/1997)
• Barbara Crowley (term: 1/1984 to 1/1994)
• Arturo Gandara (term: 1/1983 to 3/1985)

Former Members of the California Energy Commission

• Richard A. Bilas, Ph.D. (term: 3/1987 to 10/1995)
• B.B. Blevins (term: 1/29/2004 to 3/29/2004)
• James D. Boyd (term: 2/2002 to 1/2012)
• Jeffrey D. Byron (term: 6/9/2006 to 2/28/2011)
• Geoffrey D. Commons (term: 12/1982 to 1/1986)
• Barbara Crowley (term: 1/1984 to 1/1994)
• Joseph Desmond (term: 5/10/2005 to 5/10/2006)
• Ronald D. Doctor (term: 2/1975 to 1/1981)
• Karen K. Edson (term: 12/1981 to 1/1984)
• Anthony Eggert (term: 1/2010 to 1/2011)
• Arturo Gandara (term: 2/1981 to 3/1987)
• John L. Geesman (term: 7/2002 to 1/2008)
• Charles R. Imbrecht (term: 2/1983 to 1/1997)
• William J. Keese (term: 3/1997 to 3/4/2005)
• Art S. Kevorkian (term: 1/1990 to 7/1994)
• Robert A. Laurie (term: 2/1997 to 6/21/2002)
• Julia Levin, J.D. (term: 2/5/2009 to 1/4/2010)
• Robert Mussetter (term: 1/1986 to 1/1991)
• Michal C. Moore, Ph.D. (term: 10/1995 to 1/2002)
• Robert Moretti (term: 2/1975 to 10/1977)
• Warren P. "Doug" Noteware (term: 3/1985 to 1/1990, and 8/1994 to 4/1995)
• Alan D. Pasternak (term: 2/1975 to 6/1979)
• Carla Peterman (term: 1/2011 to 1/2013 - appointed by Gov. Brown to California Public Utilities Commision)
• Jackalyne Pfannenstiel (term: 4/20/2004 to 12/17/2008)
• Robert Pernell (term: 6/1999 to 1/2004)
• Sally Rakow (term: 2/1991 to 3/1997)
• C. Suzanne Reed (term: 11/1977 to 11/1981)
• David A. Rohy, Ph.D. (term: 5/1995 to 4/2000)
• Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Ph.D. (term: 4/2000 to 1/2010)
• Russell L. Schweickart (term: 7/1979 to 1/1985)
• Jananne Sharpless (term: 1/1994 to 4/1999)
• Richard E. Tuttle (term: 2/1975 to 6/1976)
• Emilio E. Varanini III (term: 8/1976 to 1/1983)
• James A. Walker (term: 9/1979 to 10/1982)