Advisory Board Member
Ann McCabe was appointed to the Illinois Commerce Commission by Governor JB Pritzker on February 1, 2022, to a five-year term and confirmed by the Illinois Senate on March 9, 2023. She brings more than 25 years of energy and environmental policy and regulatory experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. She previously served on the Commission from March 2012 to January 2017.
Commissioner McCabe is a board member of the Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI) and a member of the NARUC Gas Committee. In her first term, she served as president of both OPSI and MARC, the Mid-America Regulatory Conference.
Before returning to the Commission, Ann served for two years as US Program Manager and Principal at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and assisted non-profit and trade association clients on regulatory and policy issues. Early in her career, she managed environmental regulatory issues at BP and Amoco, covered energy and environmental issues for the State of Illinois office in Washington, DC, and was a Commissioner’s Assistant at the ICC and a state budget analyst.
Ann serves on the Advisory Boards for Grid Forward, the Financial Research Institute, and the Institute of Regulatory Law and Economics.
She earned a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Williams College.