New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
Jeanne M. Fox is President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) and serves as a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Ms. Fox was appointed to the NJBPU on January 15, 2002. The NJBPU has regulatory jurisdiction over telephone, electric, gas, water, wastewater and cable television companies and works to ensure that consumers have access to safe, reliable services at reasonable rates.
Ms. Fox is active with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners as a member of the Board of Directors, the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, the Ad Hoc Committee on Critical Infrastructure, the Utility Market Access Partnership and the Board of Directors of the National Regulatory Research Institute. She is Chair of the National Council on Electricity Policy, a consortium of the National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, National Association of State Energy Officials, the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Fox serves as 2nd Vice-President of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioner. She serves as a member of the National Academy of Science Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, National Leadership Group on Energy efficiency; Harvard Electricity Policy Group; Consumer Energy Council of America’s Public Policy Initiative Fuels and Technologies Forum; and the Advisory Council to the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute. Ms. Fox served as a member of the Electric Grid Working Group of the United States - Canada Joint Task Force on the August 14, 2003 Power Outage.
Ms. Fox served as Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy.
Ms. Fox has been a Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She is also the recipient of numerous awards including the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Ms. Fox is a Rutgers Trustee Emerita and a Board member of the Associated Alumnae of Douglass College. She also serves on numerous boards including the Bipartisan Coalition for Women’s Appointments and the Girl Scout Council of Delaware-Raritan Inc., of which she is vice-president.
Ms. Fox received a Bachelor’s Degree from Douglass College, Rutgers and a Juris Doctor from the Rutgers University School of Law.
