Jerry was appointed to the Public Service Commission of Utah (PSC) by Governor Spencer Cox on March 25, 2024, and was confirmed by the Utah State Senate on April 17, 2024. On April 22, 2024, he was selected by Governor Cox to serve as the Chair of the PSC.

Immediately prior to being named to the PSC, Jerry was an adjunct professor in the Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University.

Jerry practiced law in Utah at the law firm of Snow, Christensen & Martineau and then was a founding partner of Blackburn & Stoll, during which he represented telecommunications utilities, among other clients. Jerry then became the President of Qwest Communications for Utah and, following a merger, became the Regional Vice President of CenturyLink for both the Northwest and Southwest regions. He began his law practice with a judicial clerkship for the chief judge of the United State District Court for the District of Utah.

Jerry’s civic and community activities include currently serving as a member of the Utah Highway Patrol Honorary Colonels Association (Chair 2022-2024) and the Board of Governors of Community Health Centers of Utah. He previously served on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the Utah Symphony and Opera, as Chair of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah and Chair of Junior Achievement of Utah. He was on the boards of an additional ten community, arts, and advocacy organizations in Utah throughout his career. Jerry also held various Utah State Bar and American Bar Association leadership positions. He also served at the request of two governors as a member of and chair of the Utah Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.

Jerry spent six years in two full-time, volunteer church service positions, which necessitated his retirement from CenturyLink. He received a B.A. (Economics), an M.B.A., and a J.D. from Brigham Young University.

David was appointed to the Public Service Commission of Utah by Governor Gary Herbert on January 1, 2013 and was reappointed to a second six-year term on March 1, 2019. At the time of his initial appointment, he had been serving as the Commission’s legal counsel since 2010.

David participates in a number of national and regional organizations related to public utility regulation and policy. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and serves on the NARUC Electricity Committee. He served for several years on the Member Representatives Committee of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Northern Tier Transmission Group (NTTG). Additionally, David was Vice-Chair of the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) and represented state governments on the Member Advisory Committee of the Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC).

Prior to moving to Utah, David practiced law in California for 22 years during which he represented energy and telecommunications utilities in administrative hearings and managed the Legal Division of a gas and electric public utility. He began his law practice as a member of the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps. David also founded a financial services business in the banking sector, serving clients in the western United States.

David’s community activities have included service on the boards of the San Diego Urban League, the Poway Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, the San Diego Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the San Diego Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. He also spent three years in full-time, volunteer church service. David received his undergraduate and law degrees from Brigham Young University.

John was appointed to the Public Service Commission of Utah (PSC) by Governor Spencer Cox on May 11, 2023. At the time of his appointment, he had been a member of the PSC’s technical staff since 1998.

In addition to his duties at the PSC, John serves as the PSC’s member/representative on the following committees/collaboratives:

• Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation (CREPC)
  • CREPC’s Transmission Collaborative
• Southern Power Pool’s Regional State Committee
• Body of State Regulators for the Western Energy Imbalance Market
• National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
  • Commission Committee
  • Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment

John’s education and vocational practice are in the field of Public Economics. He takes special interest in applying economic theory to the issues of regulation, searching for the outcomes which best serve the broad public interest.

Prior to working for the PSC, John was employed by the Utah Department of Commerce with both the Division of Public Utilities (telecommunications) and the Committee of Consumer Services (electricity), preparing testimony and modeling resources addressing competition and depreciation. Prior to accepting employment with the Department of Commerce, John worked as a Quantitative Economist for Xenergy, Inc., a Boston-based energy consulting firm. There, John performed cost-benefit analysis of demand-side energy programs for utility clients and contract research regarding electric utility industry restructuring for the U.S. Department of Energy. John has taught economics courses as a teaching assistant for Utah State University (USU) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), and as an adjunct professor for the USU Extension Service, Salt Lake Community College, and the University of Phoenix.

John received a B.S. (Economics) and M.S. (Economics/History) from USU, and an M.S. and Ph.D. (Economics) from the UW-Madison.