IN HER FIRST TERM on THE COMMISSION, FIELDER RESTORED GOOD GOVERNANCE, EXPANDED CONSUMER CHOICE, INCREASED SERVICE QUALITY & SAVED MONTANANS MILLIONS.
An elected official for the past 12 years, Jennifer is the current Vice President of the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) and a former Montana State Senator. Since being elected to the PSC in 2020, Jennifer has executed numerous complex regulatory cases that improved service quality, expanded consumer choice, and saved Montanans more than $35 million dollars (scroll down for docket details). She also took on crucial extra duties to lead the state agency's strategic planning, technology modernization, and internal policy reforms that improved public access to Commission business and resulted in a remarkable turn-around at the once beleaguered agency.
In 2023, Fielder was unanimously elected by fellow Commissioners as the Commission Vice President and later that year the PSC received its best fiscal audit in a decade. Plus, for 3 straight years now, the PSC earned 100% perfect scores on all of its audits from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA ).
Jennifer's policy strengths include public lands, forestry, energy, environment, wildlife, and natural resources. She is an avid outdoorswoman and experienced administrator who has successfully implemented higher standards of conduct, order, and performance in public and private sector organizations over her 30+ year career. She has become a nationally recognized leader in the quest for responsible, beneficial use and care of public lands as CEO of the American Lands Council. Most of her work has been within the private sector although her background includes oversight of multiple public agencies and extensive governmental interactions as a planner/project manager, stewardship practitioner, hunter, angler, and elected representative of the rural west. She and her husband Paul, who is a State Representative, reside in beautiful Northwest Montana.
FIELDER'S FOCUS AT THE PSC IS ON:
1) Reliable, affordable energy
2) Safe railways and pipelines
3) Responsible, accountable public utilities
4) Expanded consumer choice, and
5) Good, constitutional governance.
Jennifer Fielder does NOT accept campaign contributions from special interests looking for favors. She has never accepted contributions from any person employed by a PSC regulated company or any entity that stands to profit from PSC decisions. 100% of Jennifer's 2024 campaign funding came from people right here in Montana, and none of it came from special interests.
"Republic Services of Montana won't have a monopoly on garbage service in Missoula County anymore." - Daily Montanan
Ending decades of over-pricing and bad behavior by the incumbent carrier, Commissioner Jennifer Fielder successfully led the effort to break the garbage monopoly in Missoula County. She chaired the 5-day evidentiary hearing that exposed a litany of evidence leading to Commission approval for new marketplace competition. On a 3-2 vote, Veteran-owned Grizzly Disposal was awarded operating authority for all points and places in Missoula County. READ THE FULL DAILY MONTANAN STORY HERE: Public Service Commission allows second garbage hauler in Missoula County.
With Fielder's support, the Commission has allowed new Montana garbage haulers to start serving other areas of the State as well. Happy consumers have been getting better service at lower prices ever since.
As a liberty-leaning legislator, Senator Fielder earned an "A" rating for steadfast defense of the 2nd Amendment; received the prestigious "Keeper of the 10th" award for outstanding defense of the rights of the States and the People; and won the 2019 Legislative Appreciation Award from one of Montana's largest sportsmen's organizations for protecting our right to hunt, fish, and trap.
In 2024, the PSC's Centralized Services Division (CSD) received the Governor's Award for Excellence in Performance. Commissioner Fielder's leadership and hard work was instrumental in transforming this unit into one of the best CSD's in the state.
If you need to reach Commissioner Fielder about official PSC business, or report a problem with a regulated entity, please use the following contact information:
Montana Public Service Commission
PO Box 202601 Helena, MT 59620-2601
Phone: (406) 444-6199
Email: PSC_help@mt.gov
To learn more about the PSC or what entities it regulates, visit https://psc.mt.gov/
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