Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff was nominated by President Bush, and sworn into office on July 31, 2006, by U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, for a term expiring in 2008.
Before coming to the Commission, Mr. Wellinghoff was a shareholder with a Nevada law firm, concentrating his practice in the fields of energy law and utility regulation for the past thirty years. In addition to representing clients before the Nevada Commission, he also has represented clients before the regulatory commissions of California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Washington, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mr. Wellinghoff was appointed by the Attorney General of Nevada to serve as the state’s first Consumer Advocate for Customers of Public Utilities. While Consumer Advocate, Mr. Wellinghoff authored one of the first comprehensive state utility integrated planning statutes and successfully lobbied it through the Nevada legislature. The statute became a model for utility integrated planning processes across the country and companion statutes were eventually adopted in seventeen other states.
Mr. Wellinghoff received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada and his J.D. from the Antioch School of Law.
