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Mr John Lee Shepherd, Jr.

202-419-2135 jshepherd@HuntonAK.com View profile

Work Department

Energy and Infrastructure

Position

Partner

Career

With more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry, Mr. Shepherd represents public utility energy suppliers and transmission owners, regional transmission organizations, large industrial concerns, and other electric power and natural gas market participants in a wide variety of regulatory litigation, certification, and enforcement matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and federal courts.

Prior to joining HuntonAK, Mr. Shepherd served as Director of Legal Policy at FERC, where he was responsible for advising three Chairmen and several Commissioners on the implementation of energy policy through adjudication, rulemaking, and judicial review. His responsibilities included drafting orders and facilitating negotiations among commissioners, managing external litigation and coordinating positions with other federal agencies, and drafting briefs and arguing cases in matters before the Supreme Court, appellate courts, district courts and bankruptcy courts.  Following his return to private practice, Mr. Shepherd’s work continues to emphasize energy and capacity market design, transmission incentives and cost allocation, pipeline certification and abandonment, hydroelectric licensing, Mobile-Sierra issues, waivers, civil enforcement matters before FERC and reviewing courts.

Memberships

Admitted to the District of Columbia State Bar

Education

• JD and LLM, International Trade and Comparative Law, Duke University School of Law, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1999
• MA and BA, Soviet and East European Studies, Yale University, summa cum laude, 1991