The Missouri Public Service Commission regulates investor-owned electric, steam, natural gas, water and sewer and telephone companies. Its mission is to ensure Missouri consumers have access to safe, reliable and reasonably priced utility service while allowing those utility companies under our jurisdiction an opportunity to earn a reasonable return on their investment. The PSC also regulates manufacturers and retail dealers who sell new and used manufactured homes and modular units. The commission was established in 1913. The PSC is comprised of five commissioners, who are appointed by the governor.
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Colleen M. Dale
Chief Judge and Secretary of the Commission
Colleen M. Dale was born in New York and spent most of her childhood in
O’Fallon, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri –
Columbia in 1976, majoring in Special Education (Behavior Disorders).
She received her Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis
in 1981. She was employed from 1981 to 1992 in Securities Enforcement
at the Office of the Missouri Secretary of State. In 1992, she joined
the Missouri Public Service Commission as Senior Counsel, then Deputy
General Counsel until 1997. Between 1997 and 2004, she served as
in-house counsel to various telecommunications and technology
companies. In 2004, she rejoined the PSC as Personal Advisor to
Commissioner Robert M. Clayton, III, and in 2005 was named Chief
Regulatory Law Judge.