Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel

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

Migden-Ostrander was sworn into office on Monday, April 5, 2004 by the Ohio Attorney General. Prior to being appointed Consumers’ Counsel by the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel’s Governing Board, 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, Migden-Ostrander has championed a variety of energy and telecommunication policies including integrated portfolio management, alternative sources of energy, energy efficiency programs and innovative rate designs in the energy industry to the delivery of broadband services and other technologies to rural and urban customers. Migden-Ostrander has also made it an agency priority to find solutions for the growing number of customers who struggle with affordability of utility services.  She is intent on addressing ways to improve traditional avenues of advocacy and outreach and education programming, as well as setting policy ground rules to increase the effectiveness of the Consumers’ Counsel in regulatory hearings.

Migden-Ostrander’s career in public utilities began 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 for the agency and litigated a variety of cases that involved electric, natural gas, telephone and water companies.

Migden-Ostrander’s previous experience also includes serving as Senior Director of Government Affairs for Enron Corporation 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.

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 currently serves on the National Coal Council, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, as well as the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Utility Consumers Advocates and on the Board of the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.  She earned a bachelor of arts 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.

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Migden-Ostrander take
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