Janine L. Migden-Ostrander has worked in public utility law for approximately 35 years, most recently as the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel where she oversaw the state agency that represents the interests of Ohio’s 4.5 million residential households with their investor-owned electric, natural gas, telephone, and water companies.
In her role as Consumers’ Counsel, Ms. Migden-Ostrander championed a variety of energy and telecommunications policies from integrated portfolio management, alternative sources of energy, energy efficiency programs, and innovative rate designs in the energy industry to the delivery of broadband services in the telecommunications industry. Ms. Migden-Ostrander also made it an agency priority to find solutions for the growing number of customers who struggle with affordability of utility services.
Ms. Migden-Ostrander’s previous experience also includes serving as an Assistant Consumers’ Counsel where she litigated a wide variety of cases involving electric, gas, telephone, and water cases; serving as a Senior Director of Government Affairs for Enron Corporation focusing on the development of competitive markets in the Midwest; and serving as Partner at the law firm Hahn Loeser and Parks where she represented environmental organizations, non-utility generators, community action agencies serving the low-income, and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, among others. She has been involved in proceedings before numerous state utility commissions, and she has monitored activities and worked on policy issues involving state and federal energy and telecommunications matters. In addition, she has worked on legislation in numerous states involving a variety of issues including natural gas and electric competition.
Ms. Migden-Ostrander is a past board member of the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, Green Energy Ohio, Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy, the Ohio Environmental Council, and the National Low Income Energy Consortium as well a member of the executive committee of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates. She currently serves on the National Coal Council, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Ms. Migden-Ostrander earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York, and she earned a Certificat de la Langue et Civilisation Francaise from the Universite de la Sorbonne in Paris, France, where she gained fluency in French. Her law degree is from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
