Katie Sieben has served as a Minnesota Public Utilities Commissioner since January of 2017. In 2019, she was appointed to serve as Chair of the Commission by Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. She was reappointed to a second term in 2023.
Chair Sieben is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) where she serves on the Gas-Electric Alignment for Reliability (GEAR) Working Group, the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, the Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues ─ Waste Disposal, and the Washington Action Committee. Chair Sieben previously served as a Minnesota legislator, representing a district southeast of the Twin Cities and along the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers. In her fourteen years in the House and Senate, she championed causes related to the environment, public education and infrastructure, served as the Assistant Majority Leader and chaired the Election Committee.
Chair Sieben has taught as a community faculty member and adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University’s Masters in Advocacy and Public Leadership Program. She earned her B.A. from Colorado College, was a Policy Fellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
