Kent A. Chandler

Kent A. Chandler is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and recently served as the Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Kentucky. While a PSC Commissioner, Chandler served on the board of directors of the National Regulatory Research Institute, the Organization of MISO States and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Chandler also served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners and the Organization of PJM States, Inc. 

Chandler has frequently testified before state legislative committees, and is an active participant on issues before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), including as a panelist in a number of technical conferences. Before arriving at the PSC, Chandler was an attorney in the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office of Rate Intervention. In that position, he regularly represented consumers before the PSC and FERC in electric, gas, water and sewer utility cases, and participated in stakeholder processes at Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs). Chandler earned a Bachelor of Science in finance from Murray State University. He received a Juris Doctor from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law.