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Katrina J. Tew was appointed to the Florida Public Service Commission by Governor
Jeb Bush for a four-year term beginning January 2006.
Commissioner Tew serves on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
(NARUC) Committee on Consumer Affairs, the Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues – Waste
Disposal, and the Task Force on Net Neutrality. Participation in these committees
affords Commissioner Tew the opportunity to engage in national policy issues that
impact each of the industries regulated by the Commission, the state economy, and
millions of Florida consumers.
Commissioner Tew has extensive experience in regulatory policy issues involving
energy, water, and telecommunications. In the eleven years prior to appointment,
Commissioner Tew used her interdisciplinary core competencies in leadership roles
on numerous technical and complex matters before the Florida Public Service Commission.
Most recently, Commissioner Tew served consecutive terms as Chief Advisor to two
different Florida Public Service Commissioners: Commissioner Charles M. Davidson
(2003-2005) and Commissioner Michael A. Palecki (2001-2003). In this role, Commissioner
Tew advised the commissioners on technical regulatory matters, financial methodologies,
and an array of public policy issues in the areas of energy, communications, and
water and wastewater.
Prior to becoming a Chief Advisor, Commissioner Tew managed the State Liaison Section
of the Commission's Division of Policy Analysis & Intergovernmental Liaison. Here,
she consulted with state and local government agencies on utility-related policy
issues of common interest, such as "black water," reuse, universal service, and
electric reliability.
For over three years prior to leading the State Liaison Section, Commissioner Tew
served as the Commission's primary liaison on all nuclear energy matters. Commissioner
Tew pursued nuclear waste reform through all plausible avenues - Congressional legislation,
federal agency action, and litigation. Working with NARUC and the Nuclear Waste
Strategy Coalition (an organization of state commissions, state consumer advocates,
state attorneys general, and the nuclear industry), she sought the timely removal
of nuclear waste from the state's two largest electric utilities, an undertaking
financed by Florida's electric consumers. Additionally, Commissioner Tew was instrumental
in drafting the Commission's positions on electric industry restructuring, which
provided valuable input to Florida's Congressional delegation on how restructuring
proposals would impact the state and its electric consumers. Commissioner Tew's
experience in the electric area began in 1994 with a concentration in environmental
and fuel cost recovery issues and territorial agreements and disputes.
Since 2001, Commissioner Tew has also been involved in policy formulation related
to a multitude of communications matters such as unbundled network element pricing,
implementation of the FCC's
Triennial Review decisions, universal service, and Lifeline, all of which are impacting
and being impacted by a changing competitive landscape. Commissioner Tew's work
has afforded her the opportunity to develop a fluency in issues of advanced communications
policy, especially those surrounding broadband, wireless, Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP), and emerging technologies such as broadband over power lines (BPL).
Commissioner Tew was a recipient of the Florida Public Service Commission Extraordinary
Accomplishment Award in 1999 and the Florida Public Service Commission Outstanding
Achievement Award in 1997, both in recognition of her work on federal energy policy.
A North Florida native, Commissioner Tew graduated from Chipley High School. In
1994, she received a Bachelor's degree in finance from Florida State University,
followed by a Master of Business Administration degree from Florida State University
in 1998.
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