Biographical Sketch of

Sonny Popowsky has served as the Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania since 1990 and has worked at the Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) since 1979.  He was the President of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) from 1996 to 1998 and was previously Chairman of the NASUCA Electric Committee.  He served on the Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) from 1997 to 2001 and served on the NERC Stakeholders Committee from 2001 to 2006.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) and the Keystone Energy Board.   In 1988, he briefed and argued the landmark United States Supreme Court case of Duquesne Light Company v. Barasch, in which the Court upheld the position of the OCA that two Pennsylvania utilities had no constitutional right to charge consumers for the costs of four cancelled nuclear power plants.  Mr. Popowsky graduated Cum Laude from Yale University and received his J.D. Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as an editor of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.  Between college and law school, Mr. Popowsky worked as a newspaper reporter for the Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Prior to joining the OCA, he was an Associate at the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz from 1977-1979.