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    Kimberly O'Guinn

    Director
    Southwest Power Pool (SPP)

    Kim O’Guinn serves as director of state regulatory policy. In her role, O’Guinn leads SPP’s state regulatory policy efforts and support the company’s work on related regional transmission organization policy matters, interacting with a wide array of stakeholder groups and organizations. O’Guinn is an environmental engineer with more than two decades of regulatory experience in the utility industry. Most recently, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson appointed her to serve as an Arkansas Public Service Commissioner in 2016.

    Before her role at the Arkansas PSC, O’Guinn served as the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s director of communication and permit engineer at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s Office of Air.

    O’Guinn has served in leadership roles with the Entergy Regional State Committee, the Organization of MISO States, SPP’s RSC, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Electric Power Research Institute Advisory Council, Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, the American Association of Blacks in Energy and Arkansas Women in Power. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

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