Trio Receive Senate Confirmation to Serve on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
David Rosner, Lindsay See and Judy W. Chang are the additions to the commission.
Yesterday and today, the U.S. Senate held recorded votes to confirm three individuals nominated by President Joe Biden to serve in the executive branch of government - specifically in the Department of Energy led by Secretary Jennifer Granholm since February 2021.
David Rosner, Lindsay See and Judy W. Chang were confirmed as Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). All three are new additions to the commission - with Rosner’s term expiring June 2027, See’s term ending June 2028, and Chang’s term concluding June 2029.
All three were nominated to these positions by Biden in February 2024. The Senate approved Rosner with a 67-27 vote, See with an 83-12 vote, and Chang with a 63-33 vote.
The 5-member FERC cannot have more than three commissioners from the same political party. Rosner and Chang will form the Democratic majority with Chair Willie L. Phillips. Meanwhile, See will join the Republican minority alongside Mark Christie.
Rosner is an energy industry analyst for FERC, currently on detail to the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Previously, he was a senior policy advisor at the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis as well as an associate director at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s energy project.
Since 2018, See has served as the Solicitor General of West Virginia. Previously, she worked as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. and in the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
Chang currently serves as an ambassador for the Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Initiative. Previously, she was the Undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions for Massachusetts. She also taught as an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.