Colette Honorable

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLIC POLICY AND CHIEF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OFFICER, EXELON CORPORATION

Ambassador

As the Executive Vice President, Public Policy and Chief External Affairs Officer at Exelon Corporation, the nation's largest utility, Colette Honorable leads Exelon’s efforts to engage external stakeholders and advance the company's vision of a clean and resilient energy future. Previously, Honorable was a Partner at Reed Smith LLP, a global law firm. She led the energy regulatory practice for the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources Group. She also served as chair of Reed Smith’s Women’s Initiative Network and was a member of the firm’s Sustaining and Training African Americans business inclusion group. From December 2014 to June 2017, she served as Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). An attorney, Honorable came to FERC from the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC), where she had served since October 2007 and led as Chair since January 2011. As Chair, Honorable oversaw an agency charged with ensuring safe, reliable, and affordable retail electric service. She participated in rate case proceedings, plant acquisitions, transmission buildout applications, regional transmission efforts, and other transactions to ensure the reliability of the Arkansas grid and the diversity of generation in the state. During her time at the PSC, Arkansas led the South and Southeast in comprehensive energy efficiency programs, and electric rates were consistently among the lowest in the nation.

Honorable is a senior fellow with the Bipartisan Policy Center, a global advisory board member for the Energy Future Initiative, on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Energy Regulators Regional Association, and an Independent Director on Southern Company’s Board of Directors, where she serves on the Finance and Business Security and Resilience Committees. She is also a past President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).

A native of Arkansas, Honorable is a graduate of the University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University) and holds a JD from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.