Legal
Angela Hawkins is Chief Legal Counsel at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Jeff Jones is Telecom/Ohio Power Siting Board Section, Chief Legal Division, at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Greg Price is Electric Section Chief, Legal Department, at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
PUF: Tell us a little about what you do.
Angela Hawkins: As the legal director, I serve as general counsel for the agency. I oversee the legal affairs from top to bottom. That would include the basics you expect an attorney to do; reviewing contracts, public records, open meetings, ethics and employee issues, and employment law, to the heart of what the agency does, which is regulate utilities.
I'm also involved in the policy issues and the day-to-day decisions of the commission. It's a big swath of territory that we cover. That's why I have trained, experienced people here.
PUF: What is your role?
Greg Price: I supervise all of the electric and other energy cases. Electricity is ninety-eight percent of my work. Interestingly, we still have a couple of old heating and cooling companies in urban centers - Cleveland and Youngstown.
We have heating and cooling companies where they're using steam to heat and cool downtown areas. We don't do a lot of work with those companies, but it's interesting. We have ten, twelve attorneys that do electric cases.
I have one thing to keep in mind. Except maybe for the section chiefs, all our lawyers work across all the sections. An attorney might have five gas cases, and a couple extra cases - some transportation, some water. Everybody's cross-trained in each area.
PUF: What is your role?