Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced the nomination of Katie Dykes to serve as a Commissioner of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA).

Since March 2012, Dykes has served as Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), where she has played prominent roles in both halves of the agency's energy branch - with PURA on the regulatory side, and with the Bureau of Energy and Technology Policy on the energy strategy side.

She also currently serves as the Chairperson of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative's Board of Directors, and she represents Governor Malloy on the Board of Managers of the New England States Committee on Electricity.

Prior to joining DEEP, Dykes served with the White House Council on Environmental Quality as Deputy General Counsel, and with the U.S. Department of Energy as Legal Advisor to the General Counsel.