White House Statement
Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve as key leaders in his Administration.
- Judy W. Chang, Nominee to be a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- David Rosner, Nominee to be a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Lindsay S. See, Nominee to be a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
By statute, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall be composed of five members, with no more than three from the same political party. See is the nominee recommended by the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Judy Chang, Nominee to be a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Judy 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, a role in which she led efforts to set policies across the Commonwealth’s energy sector and align strategies and plans to meet legal requirements for climate change mitigation. Chang has presented and testified before US 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 has presented her work at industry conferences and academic seminars on energy and environmental policies. Chang has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. She serves as an ambassador for the US Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Initiative, which has the goal of advancing women’s leadership in clean energy 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.
David Rosner, Nominee to be a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
David Rosner has fifteen 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 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, currently on detail to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Democratic staff. During his time at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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.
Lindsay S. See, Nominee to be a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Lindsay S. See is the Solicitor General of West Virginia, where she manages appellate and high-stakes litigation for the State of West Virginia. 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. After law school summers working for an anti-trafficking NGO and the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, she now deeply appreciates the opportunity to be part of her office’s work in child protection and foster care related litigation.
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. Originally from Michigan, See now considers herself both a proud Michigander and Mountaineer.