Patrick Oshie was appointed to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission by Gov. Gary Locke in 2001, and reappointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire in 2006. Prior to his commission appointment, he was a partner in a Yakima law firm, specializing in federal Indian and environmental law. In his career, Commissioner Oshie has served as an assistant city attorney for the City of Seattle, representing Seattle City Light, and as an assistant attorney general in Utah. In that capacity, he represented the Division of Public Utilities and the Committee for Consumer Services before the Utah Public Service Commission on natural gas, electricity and other utility matters. In 1986, he served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Utah’s College of Law.
Commissioner Oshie serves as chairman of the Energy Resources and the Environment Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). He is also a member of NARUC’s Committee on Consumer Affairs, the Ad Hoc Committee on Global Climate Change, and the Board of Directors. He serves on the National Council on Electricity Policy, the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Advisory Council, the Gas Technology Institute’s Public Interest Advisory Committee, and the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Leadership Group.
Oshie received his law degree from the University of Washington in 1980.
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