Connie Murray

Commissioner

Commissioner Connie Murray was appointed to a second term on the PSC by Governor Bob Holden on April 28, 2003. She was first appointed by Governor Mel Carnahan in May, 1997.

Commissioner Murray served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1991 through 1996. Her committees included Budget and Judiciary & Ethics.

Commissioner Murray is a 2004 alumna of the Institute of Regulatory Law and Economics held at the Aspen Institute. She is a member of the NARUC Committee on Water and has served on a working group of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council. She has recently been appointed to serve on the Water Government Coordinating Council which helps secure the nation’s critical water infrastructure. She is also on the Advisory Council for the Center for Public Utilities, New Mexico State University. She has served on the NARUC Telecommunications Committee and the NARUC Taskforce on Intercarrier Compensation. She is frequently invited to speak on telecommunications and other regulatory issues.

Commissioner Murray attended Temple University and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, where she graduated cum laude. She has a juris doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law where she was Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review.

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Presentations

• Global Connected Home Markets -- Challenges in the U.S.
  presented at the Net-at-Home Conference, September 2006
• Disaster Preparedness, Response and Cost Recovery in Missouri
  presented to EUCI in New Orleans, June 2006.
• A Perspective on Key Issues Affecting Investors
  presented in Chicago, April 2006
• Regulatory Independence
  presented at Women in Power Forum, November 2005
• What's Next in the Telecommunications Industry: The Implications of Clayton Christensen's book, Seeing What's Next
  presented at the Harvard Business School's Press Event, March 2005.