Jeff Davis

Commissioner

Jeff Davis was appointed to the Missouri Public Service Commission on April 30, 2004 and was named Chairman of the Public Service Commission by Governor Blunt on January 10, 2005. Commissioner Davis was re-appointed to a full six-year term in April 2006. He served as chairman until January 13, 2009.

Commissioner Davis has served as a member of the Missouri Universal Service Board, the Financial Research Institute Advisory Board, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) where he serves on the electric committee, the Advisory Board for the University of Missouri Delta Center for Agricultural Development in Southeast Missouri, Past President of the Mid-America Association of Regulatory Commissioners (MARC), and President of the Regional State Committee for Southwest Power Pool.

Commissioner Davis has served as Chair of the Missouri Energy Task Force, Chairman of the FRI Advisory Board at the University of Missouri, a member of the FERC Joint Oversight Board for Economic Dispatch for the MISO-PJM region, the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Missouri Oil and Gas Council, a member of the Board of Directors for the Organization of MISO States (OMS), and as a member of the NARUC gas committee.

Prior to his appointment to the Commission, Davis served as General Counsel and Chief of Staff for Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder. While in that capacity, Commissioner Davis provided legal counsel to the Committee on Gubernatorial Appointments and the Senate Administration Committee; managed the President Pro Tem's office; and supervised the President Pro Tem's legislative agenda, which included drafting and helping pass several pieces of legislation such as: the Senior Care and Protection Act of 2003; the Dram Shop Act of 2002; the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; and legislation authorizing Missouri's first sales tax holiday.

From July 1998 until December of 2000, Commissioner Davis was Chief of Staff and General Counsel to Senate Minority Floor Leader Steve Ehlmann. Prior to that, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Paul J. Simon, Missouri Court of Appeals, E.D. and was a legal intern in Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon's Labor Division.

Commissioner Davis graduated cum laude with a bachelor's of science degree in political science from Southeast Missouri State University in 1994 and received his juris doctorate degree from Washington University in 1997. Commissioner Davis was admitted to the Missouri Bar in October 1997, is a member of the Missouri Bar Association and Midwest Energy Bar Association.

Commissioner Davis resides in Jefferson City with his wife Tiffany (Southeast '96) and daughters Micah, Mackenzie and Mayson. He is the Past President of the Congregation at Faith Lutheran Church and serves on the national board of directors for the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.

Links of interest

• Missouri Energy Presentation
  

  Disclaimer - The views in this presentation are mine solely and should not be attributed to anyone else or construed to mean that I would vote in any way in any future case.

• Rules Committee Speech (01-13-11)
• Cost Allocation Presentation
• Weather Variation Proposal
• Fact Sheets / Consumer Information
• Report on a Review of the Missouri Public Service Commission's Standard of Conduct Rules and Conflicts of Interest Statutes
• Status Report of Missouri Energy Task Force
• Commissioner Davis - Calendar of Events