Bill: SGA 9245
LACEY, Wash. - Today, the Washington state Senate confirmed Ann Rendahl as commissioner of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) for a second six-year term ending Jan. 1, 2027.
Gov. Inslee reappointed Rendahl to serve a second term in December 2020, however most Senate confirmation hearings for 2020 appointments were postponed from the 2021 to the 2022 Legislative session. Rendahl serves on the three-member panel with Chair David Danner and Commissioner Jay Balasbas.
“Ann Rendahl has done an outstanding job as commissioner for the past seven years,” said Danner. “She puts her analytical skills, institutional knowledge, dedication, and hard work in service to the people of Washington every day. I am delighted that I will continue to work with her.”
Rendahl is the chair of the Committee on Electricity, a member of the Executive Committee, and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, or NARUC. Rendahl also serves on the Advisory Council for the Electric Power Research Institute and teaches a course on energy regulation at the University of Washington.
Prior to serving as commissioner, Rendahl was the legislative and policy director and the director of the Administrative Law Division, both at the commission. She started at the commission in 2000 as an administrative law judge. Before that she was an assistant attorney general representing the Utilities and Transportation Division of the Attorney General’s Office.
Rendahl is a graduate of Wellesley College and has a law degree from Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, and a master’s degree of public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
The UTC regulates the rates and services of the state’s investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities, landline telephone companies, solid waste haulers, private water systems and residential movers among other industries. The agency also manages the state’s pipeline, railroad, and intrastate bus and trucking safety programs.
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