Denise Bode
Denise Bode (born 1954, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a nationally recognized energy policy expert and a former Corporation Commissioner of that state.
Denise Bode | |
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| Member of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission Class 2 | |
| In office August 20, 1997 – May 14, 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Cody Graves |
| Succeeded by | Jim Roth |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma George Mason University Georgetown University Law Center St. Gregory's University |
Bode since January 2009 has been chief executive officer of the American Wind Energy Association, the national trade association of the U.S. wind energy industry. She announced on December 14, 2012 that she would resign effective January 1, 2013 to return to private practice as a tax attorney, telling The Hill newspaper, "I really want to get back in the fray and be an advocate." In response, the executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, called her a "fearless leader" for clean energy.
Appointed to the Corporation Commission by Governor Frank Keating, Bode took office on August 20, 1997 and was elected on November 3, 1998, with over 60% of the vote, a record for a Republican running statewide for the first time. She was reelected to her second full term in November 2004. In January 2005 she began her second and last six-year term in office, having won reelection by the most votes ever garnered by a Republican candidate for an Oklahoma statewide office.