Lisa Polak Edgar was appointed to the Florida Public Service Commission for a four-year term beginning January 2005. She served as Chairman from
January, 2006 to January, 2008 and participated as a member of the Florida Energy
Commission and the Governor's Action Team on Energy and Climate Change.
Commissioner Edgar is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners Board of Directors and the Telecommunications Committee. She serves
on the Federal Communications Commission Universal Service Joint Board and the U.S.
Department of Transportation Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee. She
is a member of Leadership Florida, Class XXIV.
Prior to joining the PSC, Commissioner Edgar served as Deputy Secretary for the
Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Her responsibilities at DEP
included oversight of the agency's $2.1 billion budget, fiscal and strategic planning,
accountability measures, information technology, administrative services, geological
survey, and coordination between the state and federal government on environmental
issues, including oil and gas drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf. Commissioner
Edgar represented the State of Florida on the Minerals Management Service Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) Policy Committee from 1993-2004, and on the Subcommittees
on Environmental Studies in OCS Areas under Moratoria and OCS Hard Minerals.
During her career in public service, Commissioner Edgar has also served as chief
analyst on Environmental Policy for the Office of Policy and Budget, Executive Office
of the Governor; senior cabinet aide in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services; staff counsel and legislative analyst for the Florida Senate Committees
on Reapportionment and Regulated Industries; completed the Harvard Kennedy School
of Government Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government; and co-taught
a special topics graduate course on the Everglades at Florida A&M University.
Commissioner Edgar received a Bachelor of Science and a Juris Doctorate from Florida
State University and is a member of the Florida Bar. She studied in London during
her undergraduate education and in Yugoslavia during law school. She and her husband
are raising their two young children in Tallahassee.
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