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Jennifer L. O'Connor is senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary, and chief ethics and compliance officer for Washington-based Puget Energy (NYSE: PSD), a Fortune 1000 company, and its utility subsidiary, Puget Sound Energy (PSE). With more than 20 years of legal experience, O'Connor is responsible for the corporate legal and environmental services departments.
She is an advisor to the board of directors and senior management on areas including corporate and securities law, business transactions, litigation, environmental, compliance, labor and employment, real estate, and general commercial law. O'Connor joined the company in 2003 as vice president and general counsel. In 2006 she became a founding director of the Puget Sound Energy Foundation established that year.
Prior to joining PSE, O'Connor was interim general counsel at Starbucks Corporation, where she held positions within the office of general counsel for seven years. She also worked in the legal department at Honda of America Mfg., Inc. in Ohio. She was also a litigator in private practice at Squire Sanders & Dempsey in Columbus, Ohio, and at Tobin & Tobin in San Francisco.
In addition to her corporate responsibilities, O'Connor is a member of the board and treasurer of KUOW/Puget Sound Public Radio; a member of the Edison Electric Institute's Legal Affairs Committee; a board member of the LAW Fund and the Campaign for Equal Justice (legal aid for Washington); and serves on the Investment Committee, University Unitarian Church.
O'Connor has a bachelor's degree cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles and a juris doctor degree from the Hastings College of Law, University of California.
She is married and has two children. | 