{"id":3661,"date":"2015-09-04T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a4nr.org\/?page_id=3661"},"modified":"2023-07-27T20:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T03:55:28","slug":"meet-our-legal-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/?page_id=3661","title":{"rendered":"Meet our legal team&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A4NR is pleased to present our pro-bono legal team, who are guiding A4NR through our intervention in various proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission&#8230;..<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JOHN GEESMAN<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/a4nr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Geesman-Pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3662 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/a4nr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Geesman-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"Geesman Pic\" width=\"280\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Geesman joined his wife of 27 years, Kathy Dickson, to form Dickson Geesman in 2012 and return to active engagement in California\u2019s energy debate. From 2006 to 2011 he served as Co-Chair of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and was a frequent speaker at national and international policy conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John was the attorney member of the California Energy Commission from 2002 to 2008, after a private sector career of nearly 20 years in the bond markets. His first service in government was as Executive Director of the California Energy Commission from 1979 to 1983. A former chair of the California Power Exchange and board member of the California ISO, he also served as the chair of the California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is the author of two energy-related e-books,\u00a0<em>21 Machetes\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Green Energy War<\/em>, and former executive producer of the blip-tv animated series,\u00a0<em>Scurvy News Network<\/em>. He is a graduate of Yale College and the UC Berkeley School of Law<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A4NR is pleased to present our pro-bono legal team, who are guiding A4NR through our intervention in various proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission&#8230;.. &nbsp; JOHN GEESMAN \u00a0 John Geesman joined his wife of 27 years, Kathy Dickson, to form Dickson Geesman in 2012 and return to active engagement in California\u2019s energy debate. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661\/revisions\/4603"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}