Kris Mayes

Kris Mayes is the Founding Faculty Director of the Program on Law and Sustainability at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and is a member of the faculty at ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability. Mayes served as an Arizona Corporation Commissioner from 2003 to 2010, where she was also its Chairman for two years. During her tenure at the ACC, Mayes co-authored Arizona's Renewable Energy Standard, and was a driving force behind the Commission's adoption of one of the nation's most ambitious Electric Energy Efficiency Standards. She received her bachelor's degree in political science and law degree from ASU and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University in New York.