Judith "Judy" Jagdmann

Judy is a partner in the firm's Regulatory Investigations, Strategy and Enforcement (RISE) practice, based in the Richmond office. She brings experience serving as chair and commissioner of the Virginia State Corporate Commission (VSCC) from 2006 through 2022, which includes regulating the utilities, insurance, banking, and securities industries. She also served as Virginia's attorney general from 2005-2006.

Prior to her time as attorney general, Judy was deputy attorney general for the Civil Ligation Division for seven years. There, she supervised the day-to-day operations of several divisions, including the Trial Division, Employment Division, Utility Consumer Counsel Division, and the Division of Antitrust and Consumer Litigation, responsible for multistate enforcement actions. In this role, she was actively involved in projects of major significance, including legislative, administrative, and judicial proceedings regarding restructuring of the electrical industry and various consumer matters before the VSCC and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Additionally, Judy was elected by her peers to serve as president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and was elected four times by the Virginia general assembly to lead major departments of government in the Commonwealth.

Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.

Participant, "An Economic Policy Evening – Reliability in U.S. Electricity Markets," American Council for Capital Formation, Electric Power Supply Association, Edison Electric Institute, and American Public Power Association, Washington, D.C., January 31, 2023.
Panelist, "Energy Policy," NERC 2023 Reliability Leadership Summit, National Electric Reliability Corporation, Arlington, VA, January 24, 2023.
Keynote, "Challenges and Opportunities on the Road to Decarbonization," 2022 Annual Seminar on Resource Planning for Electric Power Systems, Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2022.
Moderator, "From Bourbon Street to Wall Street: Why it Matters," NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 16, 2022.
Moderator, "The Role for Natural Gas in America's Clean Energy Future," NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 15, 2022.
Moderator, "From Intern to C-Suite: How Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Impacts Us All," NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 13, 2022.
Keynote and moderator, "Grid Resilience, DER as Mitigation Tools," EU-US Energy Regulators' Roundtable, Washington, D.C., October 13-14, 2022.
Moderator, "Perspectives from Within the [Utility] Industry," 2022 FRI Public Utility Symposium: Public Utilities and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, The Financial Research Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, September 21, 2022.
Moderator, "Are We Ready for a Nuclear Reactor Renaissance?," NARUC Summer Policy Summit, San Diego, CA, July 20, 2022.
Moderator, "The Transforming Grid-Embracing Change While Preserving Reliability," Opening General Session-NARUC Summer Policy Summit, San Diego, CA, July 18, 2022.
Moderator, "Building for the New Normal: Perspectives from Commissioners in the MARC Region," Chicago, IL, June 22, 2022.
Speaker, Opening Remarks with FERC Chairman Willie Phillips, MACRUC 27th Annual Education Conference, Farmington, PA, June 20, 2022.
Panelist, "Regulators Testing the Waters," Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility Tribunals (CAMPUT), Vancouver, BC, May 4, 2022.
Moderator, "Industry Leaders Panel," 2022 Current Issues Conference - New Mexico State University Center for Public Utilities, Santa Fe, NM, April 11, 2022.
Moderator, "Protecting the Homeland: Cybersecurity Policy, Priorities, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act," NARUC Winter Policy Summit, Washington, D.C., February 14, 2022.
Co-moderator, "Creative Solutions Created by Covid: Broadband Bands with Electricity to Provide Essential Services to Underserved Areas – A Look at the Virginias," MACRUC 26 Annual Education Conference, Farmington, PA, June 29, 2021.

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Virginia

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Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia

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University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., 1984
University of Virginia, B.A., 1981

Judith "Judy" Jagdmann

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