Sara Myers

Attorney

Sara Steck Myers is a California-licensed attorney with decades of regulatory experience, including fourteen years at the California Public Utilities Commission and a distinguished career in private practice specializing in clean energy advocacy and utility regulation. She holds a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Education

J.D. University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

  • Traynor Honor Society

  • Pacific Law Journal, Comment Author and Associate Comment Editor

B.A. Stanford University

Relevant Experience

Sara has long experience spanning many decades working for and before California regulatory agencies and State and federal courts, with a particular focus on the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).  Her work as a lawyer began with serving as a law clerk for justices of both the California Court of Appeal and the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.  This work was followed by fourteen years with the CPUC, ten of which were spent serving as an Administrative Law Judge overseeing complex energy, water, and transportation cases, including the implementation of the seminal energy legislation, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.

In 1990, Sara joined the California Energy Company, an independent geothermal energy producer, as its Chief Regulatory Counsel.  During that time, Sara was instrumental in the formation of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT), a leading advocate for clean energy for the next 35 years.

In May 1991, Sara founded her own private practice specializing in providing that advocacy and separately representing municipalities; environmental organizations; a tribal nation grass roots coalition; third party energy providers, and commercial and residential customers before the CPUC on a broad range of regulatory issues related to energy, transportation, and water services; utility planning, plant, rates, distribution and transmission; and protection of the public interest and the environment.  Sara has also appeared in civil court proceedings as an expert on the law and procedures governing the CPUC as well as its regulation of California investor-owned utilities, along with serving as chair of the California Board for Energy Efficiency.