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CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Terms of Governors and Commissioners since 1911 | |||||||
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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
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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 |
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2007 |
Timothy Simon |
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. |