On Feb. 18, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom designated John Reynolds President of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), effective March 9, 2026. President Reynolds was appointed to the CPUC by Governor Newsom on Dec. 23, 2021, and reappointed on Dec. 22, 2022.

President Reynolds has experience in both the public and private sector as an attorney and policy advisor in the energy, telecommunications, transportation, and water industries.

President Reynolds earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, and a juris doctor degree from the University of California, San Francisco College of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.

President Reynolds has led proceedings covering topics including:

• PG&E general rate case 2023-2026
• Allocating legacy energy portfolio costs between bundled customers and departing customers (PCIA)
• Analyzing and quantifying risk-related decisions by energy utilities (S-MAP/RDF)
• Implement cost recovery for energy procurement (ERRA)
• Demand response
• Telecom carrier of last resort rules
• Santa Nella investigation: directed PG&E to build infrastructure to provide energy service to a disadvantaged community at risk of losing gas service, with a household-level option to electrify
• PG&E 2023 WEMA: consideration of $1.6B in wildfire safety-related expenses
• Renewables portfolio standard
• PG&E $760 million application for billing system modernization
• Verizon-Frontier acquisition
• Biomethane
• Water consolidations

NARUC: Energy Resources and the Environment committee, International Relations subcommittee, 2025 Demand Roundtable

Other:

• Financial Research Institute board member
• Advisory board member for National Utilities Diversity Council
• Interagency working groups on reliability, offshore wind, SB100
• Enterprise for Youth’s climate career advisor