Jill Drum

Associate

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Jill navigates the firm's energy clients through complex regulatory landscapes with precision, drawing on her deep knowledge in areas such as renewable energy, transmission and interconnection, NERC requirements, and energy markets.

Overview
Awards

Jill provides comprehensive counsel to the firm’s energy clients on a broad spectrum of electric matters. Her experience spans regulatory and compliance counsel, renewable energy development and integration, NERC reliability requirements, new transmission infrastructure, transmission planning, and rate case proceedings. She largely practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), especially regarding matters arising under the Federal Power Act (FPA).

Jill navigates complex litigation for rate cases of major investor-owned utilities, interconnection and queue reform, and administrative rulemaking and implementation, drawing from her experience as an assistant attorney general for the Oregon Department of Justice. Regardless of the issue at hand, Jill’s goal is to effectively translate complex energy issues into understandable and actionable advice for clients.

In addition to her role at Troutman Pepper Locke, Jill is an adjunct professor of Energy Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. She was also a Hollings Scholar with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and served as the legal fellow to Senator Merkley (OR).

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch, Energy Law (2026)
Overview

Jill provides comprehensive counsel to the firm’s energy clients on a broad spectrum of electric matters. Her experience spans regulatory and compliance counsel, renewable energy development and integration, NERC reliability requirements, new transmission infrastructure, transmission planning, and rate case proceedings. She largely practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), especially regarding matters arising under the Federal Power Act (FPA).

Jill navigates complex litigation for rate cases of major investor-owned utilities, interconnection and queue reform, and administrative rulemaking and implementation, drawing from her experience as an assistant attorney general for the Oregon Department of Justice. Regardless of the issue at hand, Jill’s goal is to effectively translate complex energy issues into understandable and actionable advice for clients.

In addition to her role at Troutman Pepper Locke, Jill is an adjunct professor of Energy Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. She was also a Hollings Scholar with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and served as the legal fellow to Senator Merkley (OR).

Awards
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch, Energy Law (2026)

Top areas of focus

  • Assistant attorney general, Oregon Department of Justice, 2020-2022
  • Senior energy analyst, Oregon Public Utility Commission, 2019-2020
  • Enforcement counsel, North American Electric Reliability Corporation, 2018-2019
  • International energy law fellow, International Energy Law Center, University of Groningen, 2017-2018

Education

  • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2018
  • Occidental College, B.A., 2014

Bar Admissions

  • Oregon
  • District of Columbia
  • Washington

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
  • Presenter, “Electric Power Trading During the Implementation of Washington State’s Cap and Invest Program,” Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition, September 18, 2023.