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CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Terms of Governors and Commissioners since 1911

Year

Governors

Commissioners (five-member board)

Year

1911

Hiram Johnson
1911-1917

John Eshleman
Elected 11-4-1910

H.D. Loveland
Elected 11-4-1910

Alex Gordon
Elected 11-4-1910

1911

1912

Max Thelen
App'd 3-15-1912

E.O. Edgerton
App'd 3-15-1912

Term began 1-1-1911

Term began 1-1-1911

Term began 1-1-1911

1912

1913

President 1911-14

1913

1914

1914

1915

App'd 1-4-1915
President 1915-17

Edgerton re-app'd
1-4-1915

Frank Devlin
App'd 1-4-1915

App'd 1-4-1915

App'd 1-4-1915

1915

1916

Resigned 1-1-1917

1916

1917

William Stephens

Alex Gordon
Re-app'd 1-1-1917

Frank Devlin
Re-app'd 1-1-1917

1917

1918

1917-1923

Resigned 6-16-
1918

President 1918-20

1918

1919

H.D. Loveland
Re-app'd 1-1-1919

Irving Martin
App'd 1-1-1919

H.W. Brundige
App'd 1-1-1919

1919

1920

President until resigned 5-1-1921

1920

1921

Re-app'd 1-1-1921

C.H. Rowell
App'd 2-2-1921

President
mid-1921 - 1922

H.S. Benedict
App'd 5-2-1921

1921

1922

Died 6-11-1922

Resigned 1-1-1923

Resigned 1-1-1923

1922

1923

Friend
Richardson

H.W. Brundige
Re-app'd 1-5-1923

E. Shore
App'd 1-5-1923

J.T. Whittlesey
App'd 1-5-1923

Clyde L. Seavey
App'd 1-5-1923

1923

1924

1923-1927

Resigned 6-30-1925

President 1923-24

1924

1925

President 1925-26

Ezra W. Decoto
App'd 1-13-1925

G.D. Squires
App'd 1-13-1925

1925

1925

Leon Whitsell
App'd 7-28-1925

Died 1-31-1926

1925

1926

Thomas Louttit
App'd 7-14-1926

1926

1927

C.C. Young
1927-1931

Brundige
Re-app'd 1-1-1927
Died 7-16-1927

Whitsell
Re-app'd 1-1-1927

President 1927

1927

1927

William J. Carr
App'd 8-2-1927

1927

1928

President 1928

1928

1929

President 1929

Seavey
Re-app'd 1-1-1929

1929

1930

Resigned
12-31-1930

President 1930
until resigned

1930

1931

James
Rolph

F.S. Stevenot
App'd 1-1-1931

William J. Carr
Re-app'd 1-1-1931

M.B. Harris
App'd 1-1-1931

8-10-1934

1931

1932

1931-1934

1932

1933

Wallace L. Ware
App'd 1-1-1933

Re-app'd 1-1-1933

1933

1934

Frank
Merriam

President
8-1934 to 1935

1934

1934

1934-1939

Frank R. Devlin
App'd 10-9-1934

1934

1935

Re-app'd 1-1-1935

1935

1936

President 1936

1936

1937

President 1937 until resigned

Ray L. Riley
App'd 1-9-1937

Ray C. Wakefield
App'd 1-2-1937

1937

1938

7-31-1938

1938

1938

C.C. Baker
App'd 12-12-1938

President
8-1938-1939

1938

1939

Culbert
Olsen

Baker
Re-app'd 1-1-1939

Justus F. Craemer
App'd by Governor

1939

1940

1939-1943

Merriam 1-1-1939

President 1940

1940

1941

President 1941

Resigned 3-21-1941

Franck Havenner
App'd 1-1-1941

1941

1941

R. Sachse
App'd 5-1-1941

1941

1942

President 1942

1942

1943

Earl
Warren

Died 1-30-1944

Fred W. Clark
App'd 1-1-1943

Re-app'd 1-1-1943

President 1943

1943

1944

1943-1953

Ira H. Rowell
App'd 2-18-1944

Resigned 1-3-1945

1944

1945

Re-app'd 1-1-1945

Re-app'd 1-1-1945

Resigned 10-31-1945

L.H. Anderson
App'd 1-4-1945

1945

1945

Harold P. Huls
App'd 11-9-1945

1945

1946

President until
resigned 7-31-1946

1946

1946

President mid-1946 to 1947

R.E. Mittelstaedt
App'd 8-8-1946

1946

1947

Resigned 1-15-1947

Re-app'd 1-1-1947

1947

1947

Kenneth Potter
App'd 2-5-1947

1947

1948

President 1948
until he retired

1948

1949

Re-app'd 1-1-1949

Re-app'd 1-1-1949

4-30-1954

1949

1950

1950

1951

Peter E. Mitchell
App'd 1-17-1951

Re-app'd 1-2-195

1951

1952

1952

1953

1953

1953

Goodwin
Knight

Resigned 9-30-1953

Re-app'd 1-1-1953

1953

1954

1953-1959

President mid-1954 to mid-1958

Vacant

Retired
4-30-1954

1954

1954

Ray Untereiner
App'd 9-8-1954

1954

1955

Rex Hardy
App'd 5-26-1955

Matthew Dooley
App'd 1-24-1955

1955

1956

Retired
10-31-1956

1956

1956

C. Lyn Fox
App'd 11-1-1956

1956

1957

Re-app'd 1-1-1957

Re-app'd 1-1-1957

1957

1958

Resigned 2-28-1958

1958

1958

President mid-1958 to mid-1959

Theodore Jenner
App'd 3-29-1958

1958

1959

Edmund G. "Pat"

Everett McKeage
App'd 2-16-1959

1959

1960

Brown
1959-

President until
mid-1962

1960

1961

1967

Frederick B. Holoboff
App'd 1-31-1961

George Grover
App'd 1-26-1961

1961

1962

President mid-1962 to mid-1963

1962

1963

Re-app'd 1-1-1963

William M. Bennett
App'd 1-1-63

1963

1964

President mid-1963 to mid-1964

President mid-1964 to mid-1966

1964

1965

A.W. Gatov
2-10-1965

1965

1966

President mid-1966 to mid-1968

Oath of Office

1966

1967

Ronald Reagan

William Symons, Jr.
App'd 1-16-1967

Fred P. Morrissey
App'd 1-16-1967

1967

1968

1967-1975

President mid-1968 to mid-1970

1968

1969

Resigned
8-31-1969

1969

1969

John Vukasin, Jr.
App'd 1-6-1969

Thomas Moran
App'd 1-13-1969

Vernon Sturgeon App'd 9-2-1969

1969

1970

President mid-1970 to mid-1972

1970

1971

David W. Holmes
App'd 2-10-1971

1971

1972

President mid-1972 to mid-1975

1972

1973

Re-app'd 1-1-1973

Re-app'd 1-1-1973

1973

1974

Resigned
10-22-1974

1974

1974

Robert McDavid
App'd 10-22-1974

1974

1975

Edmund G. "Jerry"

Leonard Ross
App'd 1-20-1975

President
mid-1975 to 1976

1975

1976

Brown

Robert Batinovich
App'd 3-25-1975

1976

1977

1975-1983

Resigned
4-14-1977

President
1977-78

Richard Gravelle
App'd 1-26-1977

1977

1977

Claire Dedrick
App'd 7-1-1977

1977

1978

Resigned
1-16-1979

1978

1979

Vernon Sturgeon
Re-app'd 1-24-1979

Leonard Grimes, Jr. App'd 1-26-1979

John E. Bryson
App'd 1-24-1979

1979

1980

President 1979 until resigned 12-31-1982

1980

1981

Priscilla Grew
App'd 3-25-1981

Victor Calvo
App'd 2-19-1981

1981

1982

President 1982 until resigned 9-7-1984

1982

1983

George
Deukmejian-

William Bagley
App'd 5-4-1983

Donald Vial
App'd 12-21-1982

1983

1984

1983-1991

Frederick Duda
App'd 11-27-1984

President
9-1984 to 1986

1984

1985

Re-app'd 1-1-1985

Re-app'd 1-1-1985

1985

1986

Resigned 4-7-1986

1986

1986

G. Mitchell Wilk
App'd 12-16-1986

Stanley Hulett
App'd 5-6-1986

1986

1987

President 1987-88

1987

1988

John B. Ohanian
App'd 3-4-1987

1988

1989

President 1989-90

Patricia Eckert
App'd 3-13-1989

1989

1990

1990

1991

Pete
Wilson

Resigned
10-4-1991

Norman Shumway App'd 2-12-1991

Daniel Fessler App'd 2-12-1991

President 1991

1991

1992

1991-1999

Vacant

President 1992 thru 4-1996

1992

1993

P. Gregory Conlon
App'd 2-11-1993

Jessie J. Knight, Jr.
App'd 8-23-1993

1993

1994

1994

1995

Resigned 2-23-1995

1995

1995

Henry M. Duque App'd 4-3-1995

Josiah L. Neeper App'd 9-20-1995

1995

1996

President 5-1996 - 12-97

1996

1997

Re-app'd 1-2-1997

Richard A.Bilas
App'd 1-2-1997

1997

1998

Resigned 3-8-02
President 2-1-1998

1998

1999

Gray
Davis

Carl Wood
App'd 6-21-1999

Joel Hyatt
App'd 6-10-99

to 3-1-2000

1999

2000

1999-2003

Resigned 12-17-99

2000

2000

Loretta Lynch
App'd 1-5-00

2000

2001

President March 2000

Geoffrey Brown
App'd 1/18/2001

2001

2001

to Dec 31, 2002

2001

2002

Michael R. Peevey
App'd 3-10-2002

2002

2003

Davis reelected

Susan Kennedy
Appt 1/1/2003

Michael R. Peevey
Reapp'd 1-1-2003

2003

2003

Arnold Schwar-zenegger

Resigned12/2005

President 1-2003

2003

2004

Nov 2003

2004

2005

(Davis was recalled)

John Bohn
App'd 5/2/2005

Dian Grueneich
App'd 1/1/2005

2005

2006

Rachelle Chong
Appt 1/11/2006

2007

Timothy Simon
App'd 2/15/2007

2007

Prior to mid-1946, the Commission was called the California Railroad Commission. July 5, 2007
Commissioners are appointed by the Governor for six-year terms, except those appointed to fill a vacated position.


CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Terms of Governors and Commissioners since 1911

Year	Governors	Commissioners (five-member board)					Year
1911	Hiram Johnson 1911-1917			John Eshleman Elected 11-4-1910	H.D. Loveland Elected 11-4-1910	Alex Gordon Elected 11-4-1910	1911
1912		Max Thelen App'd 3-15-1912	E.O. Edgerton App'd 3-15-1912	Term began 1-1-1911	Term began 1-1-1911	Term began 1-1-1911	1912
1913				President 1911-14			1913
1914							1914
1915		App'd 1-4-1915 President 1915-17	Edgerton re-app'd 1-4-1915	Frank Devlin App'd 1-4-1915	App'd 1-4-1915	App'd 1-4-1915	1915
1916				Resigned 1-1-1917			1916
1917	William Stephens			Alex Gordon Re-app'd 1-1-1917		Frank Devlin Re-app'd 1-1-1917	1917
1918	1917-1923	Resigned 6-16- 1918	President 1918-20				1918
1919		H.D. Loveland Re-app'd 1-1-1919		Irving Martin App'd 1-1-1919	H.W. Brundige App'd 1-1-1919		1919
1920						President until resigned 5-1-1921	1920
1921		Re-app'd 1-1-1921	C.H. Rowell App'd 2-2-1921		President mid-1921 - 1922	H.S. Benedict App'd 5-2-1921	1921
1922		Died 6-11-1922	Resigned 1-1-1923		Resigned 1-1-1923		1922
1923	Friend Richardson	H.W. Brundige Re-app'd 1-5-1923	E. Shore App'd 1-5-1923		J.T. Whittlesey App'd 1-5-1923	Clyde L. Seavey App'd 1-5-1923	1923
1924	1923-1927		Resigned 6-30-1925			President 1923-24	1924
1925		President 1925-26		Ezra W. Decoto App'd 1-13-1925	G.D. Squires App'd 1-13-1925		1925
1925			Leon Whitsell App'd 7-28-1925		Died 1-31-1926		1925
1926					Thomas Louttit App'd 7-14-1926		1926
1927	C.C. Young 1927-1931	Brundige Re-app'd 1-1-1927 Died 7-16-1927	Whitsell Re-app'd 1-1-1927	President 1927			1927
1927		William J. Carr App'd 8-2-1927					1927
1928			President 1928				1928
1929					President 1929	Seavey Re-app'd 1-1-1929	1929
1930		Resigned 12-31-1930				President 1930 until resigned	1930
1931	James Rolph	F.S. Stevenot App'd 1-1-1931		William J. Carr Re-app'd 1-1-1931	M.B. Harris App'd 1-1-1931	8-10-1934	1931
1932	1931-1934						1932
1933		Wallace L. Ware App'd 1-1-1933	Re-app'd 1-1-1933				1933
1934	Frank Merriam		President 8-1934 to 1935				1934
1934	1934-1939					Frank R. Devlin App'd 10-9-1934	1934
1935						Re-app'd 1-1-1935	1935
1936					President 1936		1936
1937		President 1937 until resigned		Ray L. Riley App'd 1-9-1937	Ray C. Wakefield App'd 1-2-1937		1937
1938		7-31-1938					1938
1938		C.C. Baker App'd 12-12-1938			President 8-1938-1939		1938
1939	Culbert Olsen	Baker Re-app'd 1-1-1939	Justus F. Craemer App'd by Governor				1939
1940	1939-1943		Merriam 1-1-1939	President 1940			1940
1941		President 1941			Resigned 3-21-1941	Franck Havenner App'd 1-1-1941	1941
1941					R. Sachse App'd 5-1-1941		1941
1942			President 1942				1942
1943	Earl Warren	Died 1-30-1944		Fred W. Clark App'd 1-1-1943	Re-app'd 1-1-1943	President 1943	1943
1944	1943-1953	Ira H. Rowell App'd 2-18-1944				Resigned 1-3-1945	1944
1945		Re-app'd 1-1-1945	Re-app'd 1-1-1945		Resigned 10-31-1945	L.H. Anderson App'd 1-4-1945	1945
1945					Harold P. Huls App'd 11-9-1945		1945
1946						President until resigned 7-31-1946	1946
1946					President mid-1946 to 1947	R.E. Mittelstaedt App'd 8-8-1946	1946
1947				Resigned 1-15-1947		Re-app'd 1-1-1947	1947
1947				Kenneth Potter App'd 2-5-1947			1947
1948						President 1948 until he retired	1948
1949				Re-app'd 1-1-1949	Re-app'd 1-1-1949	4-30-1954	1949
1950							1950
1951		Peter E. Mitchell App'd 1-17-1951	Re-app'd 1-2-195				1951
1952							1952
1953							1953
1953	Goodwin Knight				Resigned 9-30-1953	Re-app'd 1-1-1953	1953
1954	1953-1959	President mid-1954 to mid-1958			Vacant	Retired 4-30-1954	1954
1954						Ray Untereiner App'd 9-8-1954	1954
1955				Rex Hardy App'd 5-26-1955	Matthew Dooley App'd 1-24-1955		1955
1956			Retired 10-31-1956				1956
1956			C. Lyn Fox App'd 11-1-1956				1956
1957		Re-app'd 1-1-1957	Re-app'd 1-1-1957				1957
1958				Resigned 2-28-1958			1958
1958			President mid-1958 to mid-1959	Theodore Jenner App'd 3-29-1958			1958
1959	Edmund G. "Pat"					Everett McKeage App'd 2-16-1959	1959
1960	Brown 1959-					President until mid-1962	1960
1961	1967			Frederick B. Holoboff App'd 1-31-1961	George Grover App'd 1-26-1961		1961
1962					President mid-1962 to mid-1963		1962
1963		Re-app'd 1-1-1963	William M. Bennett App'd 1-1-63				1963
1964			President mid-1963 to mid-1964	President mid-1964 to mid-1966			1964
1965						A.W. Gatov 2-10-1965	1965
1966		President mid-1966 to mid-1968				Oath of Office	1966
1967	Ronald Reagan			William Symons, Jr. App'd 1-16-1967	Fred P. Morrissey App'd 1-16-1967		1967
1968	1967-1975			President mid-1968 to mid-1970			1968
1969					Resigned 8-31-1969		1969
1969		John Vukasin, Jr. App'd 1-6-1969	Thomas Moran App'd 1-13-1969		Vernon Sturgeon App'd 9-2-1969		1969
1970		President mid-1970 to mid-1972					1970
1971						David W. Holmes App'd 2-10-1971	1971
1972					President mid-1972 to mid-1975		1972
1973				Re-app'd 1-1-1973	Re-app'd 1-1-1973		1973
1974		Resigned 10-22-1974					1974
1974		Robert McDavid App'd 10-22-1974					1974
1975	Edmund G. "Jerry"	Leonard Ross App'd 1-20-1975				President mid-1975 to 1976	1975
1976	Brown		Robert Batinovich App'd 3-25-1975				1976
1977	1975-1983	Resigned 4-14-1977	President 1977-78			Richard Gravelle App'd 1-26-1977	1977
1977		Claire Dedrick App'd 7-1-1977					1977
1978			Resigned 1-16-1979				1978
1979			Vernon Sturgeon Re-app'd 1-24-1979	Leonard Grimes, Jr. App'd 1-26-1979	John E. Bryson App'd 1-24-1979		1979
1980					President 1979 until resigned 12-31-1982		1980
1981		Priscilla Grew App'd 3-25-1981	Victor Calvo App'd 2-19-1981				1981
1982				President 1982 until resigned 9-7-1984			1982
1983	George Deukmejian-				William Bagley App'd 5-4-1983	Donald Vial App'd 12-21-1982	1983
1984	1983-1991			Frederick Duda App'd 11-27-1984		President 9-1984 to 1986	1984
1985				Re-app'd 1-1-1985	Re-app'd 1-1-1985		1985
1986					Resigned 4-7-1986		1986
1986		G. Mitchell Wilk App'd 12-16-1986			Stanley Hulett App'd 5-6-1986		1986
1987					President 1987-88		1987
1988			John B. Ohanian App'd 3-4-1987				1988
1989		President 1989-90				Patricia Eckert App'd 3-13-1989	1989
1990							1990
1991	Pete Wilson	Resigned 10-4-1991		Norman Shumway App'd 2-12-1991	Daniel Fessler App'd 2-12-1991	President 1991	1991
1992	1991-1999	Vacant			President 1992 thru 4-1996		1992
1993		P. Gregory Conlon App'd 2-11-1993	Jessie J. Knight, Jr. App'd 8-23-1993				1993
1994							1994
1995				Resigned 2-23-1995			1995
1995				Henry M. Duque App'd 4-3-1995		Josiah L. Neeper App'd 9-20-1995	1995
1996		President 5-1996 - 12-97					1996
1997				Re-app'd 1-2-1997	Richard A.Bilas App'd 1-2-1997		1997
1998					Resigned 3-8-02 President 2-1-1998		1998
1999	Gray Davis	Carl Wood App'd 6-21-1999	Joel Hyatt App'd 6-10-99		to 3-1-2000		1999
2000	1999-2003		Resigned 12-17-99				2000
2000			Loretta Lynch App'd 1-5-00				2000
2001			President March 2000			Geoffrey Brown App'd 1/18/2001	2001
2001			to Dec 31, 2002				2001
2002					Michael R. Peevey App'd 3-10-2002		2002
2003	Davis reelected			Susan Kennedy Appt 1/1/2003	Michael R. Peevey Reapp'd 1-1-2003		2003
2003	Arnold Schwar-zenegger			Resigned12/2005	President 1-2003		2003
2004	Nov 2003						2004
2005	(Davis was recalled)	John Bohn App'd 5/2/2005	Dian Grueneich App'd 1/1/2005				2005
2006				Rachelle Chong Appt 1/11/2006
2007						Timothy Simon App'd 2/15/2007	2007
Prior to mid-1946, the Commission was called the California Railroad Commission. July 5, 2007 Commissioners are appointed by the Governor for six-year terms, except those appointed to fill a vacated position.