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Consumers' Counsel - Janine L. Migden-Ostrander
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Ohio Consumers’ Counsel Janine L. Migden-Ostrander oversees the state agency that represents the interests of Ohio’s 4.5 million residential households in matters concerning their investor-owned electric, natural gas, telephone and water utilities.

Ms. Migden-Ostrander was sworn into office on April 5, 2004 by the Ohio attorney general. Prior to her appointment by the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel’s Governing Board, Ms. Migden-Ostrander was a partner in the law firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks and served as co-chair of the firm’s Utility and Regulatory Practice Group.

In her role as consumers’ counsel, Ms. Migden-Ostrander has championed a variety of energy and telecommunications policies. They include integrated portfolio management, alternative sources of energy, energy efficiency programs and innovative rate designs in the energy industry, delivery of broadband services and other technologies to rural and urban customers. Ms. Migden-Ostrander also has made it an agency priority to find solutions for the increasing number of customers who struggle to keep pace with rising utility prices. She is intent on addressing ways to improve traditional avenues of advocacy, outreach and education programming. She also wants to increase the effectiveness of the regulatory process to ensure fairness for consumers.

With more than 25 years of experience, Ms. Migden-Ostrander is well-known within the utility and environmental industries as a strong consumer advocate. She began her career in public utilities at the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, where she served as an administrative assistant before earning a law degree from Capital University. She then was promoted to assistant consumers’ counsel and litigated a variety of cases that involved state-regulated electric, natural gas, telephone and water utilities.

Ms. Migden-Ostrander’s previous experience also includes serving as senior director of government affairs for Enron Corp. and as special prosecutor for Montgomery County. She has been involved in proceedings before numerous state utility commissions, and has monitored activities and worked on policy issues involving state and federal energy and telecommunications matters. In addition, she has worked on legislation in numerous states involving a variety of issues, including natural gas and electric competition.

Ms. Migden-Ostrander is in the Leadership Group of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, on the National Coal Council, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, a member of the executive committee and secretary of the National Association of State Utility Advocates and on the board of the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. The Alliance presented her with its Inspiring Efficiency Leadership Award in 2010.

Ms. Migden-Ostrander is a past board member of Green Energy Ohio, Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy, the Ohio Environmental Council and the National Low Income Energy Consortium. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York, and earned a Certificat de la Langue et Civilisation Francaise from the Universite de la Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Read Janine L. Migden-Ostrander's Plan of Action for the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel from the Spring of 2004.

View Janine L. Migden-Ostrander's OCC Plan of Action Power Point presentation.

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