Jeanne Fox is the former President of the
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) is a regulatory authority in New Jersey "with authority to oversee the regulated utilities, which in turn provide critical services such as natural gas, electricity, water, telecommunications and ca ...
. She was originally appointed to the position in 2002 by former Gov.
James McGreevey and was retained in the Cabinets of former Gov.
Richard Codey and Gov.
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine ( ; born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran fo ...
.
Corzine Names McElwain Acting Director of Office of Counter-Terrorism
, Governor of New Jersey
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press release dated January 18, 2006. Accessed October 25, 2007. "Corzine also renamed Jeanne Fox to continue her service as President of the Board of Public Utilities." Fox retired from the NJ BPU in September 2014 and was succeeded by Upendra J. Chivukula
Upendra Chivukula (born October 8, 1950) is a Democratic politician who currently serves as a Commissioner on the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities after serving more than 12 years in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he had been the De ...
.
Fox was the first former BPU staffer to become a commissioner on the BPU. In the 1980s, Fox held several positions with the agency in water management. Prior to her positions at the BPU, she was an election lawyer for the New Jersey Department of State. From 1991 to 1994 she served under former Gov. James Florio
James Joseph Florio (August 29, 1937 – September 25, 2022) was an American politician who served as the 49th governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. He was previously the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 19 ...
as Deputy Commissioner of Environmental Protection and Energy and for several months at the end of Florio's term as Acting Commissioner of Environmental Protection and Energy. In addition she represented New Jersey on several interstate boards while at the DEP. From 1994 to 2001 she served as Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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in the administration of President Bill Clinton
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References
External links
Official NJ Board of Public Utilities Bio
New Jersey lawyers
State cabinet secretaries of New Jersey
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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