Denise A. Bode is Vice Chairman, Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Appointed on August 20, 1997, Bode was elected to a full six year term on November 3, 1998. Commissioner Bode is considered one of the leading experts on national energy policy and has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. Bode formerly served seven years as President of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) in Washington, DC, a national trade group representing 8,000 oil and natural gas producers. Selected as Journal Record’s 1999 Woman of the Year she currently serves on various boards and committees including the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, the Executive Committee of the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals, the Nat’l Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.

Gloria Caldwell has served on the Neighbor for Neighbor Board of Directors since 1979 after serving as a volunteer since 1968. Caldwell was Consumer Affairs Manager for Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. for 19 years and was formerly with Farm Electric Company and Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company. She has served her community on numerous Boards and Committees including Oklahoma Department of Health Hospital Advisory Council, League of Women Voters Metropolitan Tulsa Board, Tulsa Senior Services Eldercare Advisory Council, Vintage Housing Corporation, Community Service Council’s Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership Advisory Council, Tulsa Women’s Foundation, and Vintage Housing Corporation.

Wanda DeBruler serves as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies whose mission is to reduce poverty and provide opportunities that foster self-sufficiency for the economically disadvantaged. DeBruler brokers information services to public and private organizations throughout the state, region, and nation. She has over 20 years experience in public affairs and policy development.

Senator Kevin A. Easley serves District 18 which represents southern Mayes County, Wagoner, and a portion of Tulsa County. Prior to being elected to the state Senate he served in the House of Representatives for six years, being elected at age 24. While in the House he chaired the powerful Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Bringing his expertise to the Senate, Senator Easley soon became recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on energy related issues, being quoted in national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, and authoring some of the most progressive oil and gas legislation in the country. Easley currently chairs the Senate Energy, Environmental Resources and Regulatory Affairs Committee as well as the Legislative Bond Oversight Commission, is vice-chairman of the Senate Rules committee, and serves on the Senate Appropriations, Finance, General Government, and Wildlife committees. Easley also serves as chairman of the Oklahoma Electric Utility Task Force and chairs the state’s Natural Gas Policy Commission. He has received numerous awards and honors including being named Legislator of the Year by the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. Senator Easley is a member of the Energy Council’s Executive Committee.

Jimmy Glotfelty is Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Calpine Corporation’s Central Region. Prior to joining Calpine, Jimmy served for four years as Director of General Government Policy and Senior Energy Advisor to Governor George W. Bush. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University.

Cody Graves is Chief Executive Officer for Automated Energy, Inc., a leading information technology firm that provides business and industry with the customer specific internet-ready energy management information services necessary to navigate the uncharted waters of utility restructuring. Graves is a former Chairman of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission serving on the Commission from August 1991 until June 1997. Since leaving the Commission, Graves has focused on the restructuring of the natural gas and electric utility industries. He has advised consumer groups, utilities and legislatures across the country. Graves has testified before Congress advocating the restructuring of the electric utility industry, PURPA reform, The Royalty Simplification Act and incentives for the domestic oil and gas industry. He has also written articles concerning various other energy issues for several national publications. Graves has served as a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Committee on Electricity, the Oklahoma Natural Gas Policy Commission, and the Consumer Energy Council of America Electric Restructuring Forum. He is currently a member of the Harvard Electric Policy Group. Formerly a member of Crowe & Dunlevy law firm, he also worked nine years for U.S. Senator David L. Boren as Legislative Director and Legal Counsel.

Harold Hale is Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives since 1991. He served from 1981-1990 as Canadian County Representative to the Oklahoma House of Representatives where he served as Vice Chair of the Agriculture Committee, Chair of the Business and Commerce Committee, and Chair of the Banking and Finance Committee. He has served as a registered lobbyist for the Independent Oklahoma Grocer’s Association, the Oklahoma Automobile Dealer’s Association, and the Oklahoma Motor Carriers Association.

Dr. Alexander Holmes is Regent’s Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma since 1991 having taught there since 1974. He teaches Principles of Microeconomics and Business Statistics and also the Honors section of Microeconomic Principles. Holmes has been a member of the Oklahoma 2000 research team since 1983. He is a founding board member of the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals and was appointed by Governor Henry Bellmon to serve as Oklahoma Secretary of Finance and Revenue and State Budget Director from 1987-1991. In March 1999, Dr. Holmes with Dr. Kent Olson of OSU prepared alternative property tax scenarios under various electric power deregulation schemes for the Oklahoma Tax Commission and in the Spring 2000 they again developed specific estimates of the impact of proposed deregulation legislation on the property tax revenues to common and vo-tech schools.

Mike Hunter was appointed by Governor Frank Keating in March 1999, as the 29^th Secretary of State of Oklahoma. He also serves as the Governor’s chief liaison to the Oklahoma Legislature and to the state’s federal delegation in Washington, DC. Hunter previously served as Chief of Staff to Congressman J. C. Watts, Jr. of Oklahoma’s Fourth District and he served as legal counsel to Mr. Watts in his work on the National Security and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. From 1984 to 1990 Hunter served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives where he served as Chairman of the Republican Caucus and Vice Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee. He formerly served as General Counsel of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Hunter maintained a private legal practice from 1982-1992 and his area of specialization is energy, real property, public employment law and utility regulation. He has served as an adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma.

R. Dobie Langenkamp is a Visiting Professor of Law and Acting Director, NELPI, at the University of Tulsa College of Law. Langenkamp is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Law School and has practiced law in Washington, DC and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981 and 1996-1997) Langenkamp also served as Chapman Distinguished Professor of Energy Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Steve Largent is currently serving his third term as a Member of the U.S.Congress representing the First Congressional District of OK. Largent is a member of the Commerce Committee, the Energy and Power Subcommittee on the Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, and on the Finance and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee. A member of the National Football League Hall of Fame, Largent was a record-setting pass receiver and set six different career records, and was inducted into the Pro-Football Hall of Fame in 1995. Largent’s commitment to family and youth is well known, as is his service to community and charitable causes. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Tulsa Area Salvation Army and Young Life, and has served on the Board of Trustees at the University of Tulsa.

Marla E. Mansfield is Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. Professor Mansfield received her B.A. from Yale, summa cum laude, and her J.D. with honors from the University of Wyoming. Before teaching, she was an attorney for the Department of Interior based in the Rocky Mountain Regional Solicitor’s office. She is editor of the Year in Review for the American Bar Association’s section on Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law and writes the Mineral Law Newsletter for the Oklahoma Bar Association. Mansfield is a past chair of the Environmental Law Section of The Association of American Law Schools and a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Her research interests include environmental, mineral energy, and administrative law.

William A. Mogel is with Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, of Washington, DC and his practice specializes in energy matters. He has extensive experience in restructuring issues affecting both the electric and natural gas industries. Mogel also represents large consumers of electricity and natural gas. In 1980, Mogel founded, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Law Journal, published at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He is also Director of the Foundation of the Energy Law Journal, and Co-Editor of the Energy Law and Transactions, a six volume treatise dealing with every aspect of energy law. Mogel has published three books and numerous articles and reviews on a broad range of energy issues. His writings have been cited as authority by the U. S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. Mogel’s experience includes privatization and restructuring matters in Ireland, Moldova, Poland, Russia, and the Slovak Republic. He is listed in the Energy Who’s Who Directory.

Lee Paden served for 20 years in various capacities at Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Tulsa. During his tenure there his primary responsibility was management of the company’s government relations activities. He also served as a regulatory attorney and as project manager for litigation activities for MetroLink, Inc., a hybrid-microwave/fiber optic communications company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Public Service Company. In August 1998, Paden established his own law firm. He specializes in electric restructuring, energy, environmental, and government relations issues. Paden served as special assistant to Senator Henry Bellmon in Washington, D.C. and Oklahoma from 1969 to 1978. He was appointed in 1993 to serve on the newly created Environmental Quality Board representing large quantity water users and presently serves as Chairman. Before his appointment to the Environmental Quality Board, Paden served six and one half years on the Oklahoma State Board of Health.

Larry D. Rice has been a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for fourteen years representing District 8. He is Chair of the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee as well as serving on the Banking and Finance, the Commerce, Industry and Labor , Administrative Rules and Economic Development. He has been actively involved in higher education for the past 20 years and has been associated with the University of Tulsa since 1991. His public service includes membership on the board of directors of the Oklahoma Academy, Thunderbird Youth Academy, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation - Tulsa Chapter, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Green County.

Tom Schroedter is a shareholder in the law firm of Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C. in its Tulsa office. Prior to joining Hall, Estill in October 1992, Schroedter was Associate General Counsel of Apache Corporation with primary responsibility for Apache's domestic oil and gas related legal matters. Schroedter's legal experience encompasses a wide range of areas in energy and conservation law including: the review and drafting of oil and gas contracts such as exploration agreements, joint ventures, joint operating agreements, gas balancing agreements; the management of oil and gas acquisition and mergers; the management of oil and gas litigation in state and federal courts; advising on matters involving federal and Indian lands, including royalty valuation issues; advising on environmental issues affecting oil and gas producers; handling conservation cases before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; and providing advice on title related matters including the preparation of drillsite, division order, mortgage and acquisition title opinions. Schroedter has authored articles and been a frequent lecturer on the subject of oil and gas law and regulatory matters at continuing legal education programs. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa, College of Law, teaching courses in oil and gas contracts and oil and gas transactions.

Scott Willis is a Manager of Business Development for Calpine Corporation’s Central Region, including Oklahoma. Prior to joining Calpine, Scott worked in engineering and marketing for Westinghouse Power Generation. He holds an undergraduate and graduate degree from Clemson University’s School of Engineering.

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