Noemí Gallardo

Commissioner, California Energy Commission

Noemí Gallardo is serving her first term on the California Energy Commission (CEC), having been appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in February 2023 as the CEC’s attorney member. She holds the distinction of being the first Latina appointed as a commissioner in the CEC’s history. Gallardo began her tenure at the CEC in 2019 as the Public Advisor and later advanced to serve as Chief of Staff to CEC Chair David Hochschild. Prior to joining the Energy Commission, Gallardo was the Senior Manager of Public Policy at Sunrun Inc. Her extensive professional background includes roles such as Program Fellow at the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, Consultant at Gallardo Law and Policy Consulting, Energy and Telecommunications Legal Fellow at the Greenlining Institute, and Principal Investigator at the Public Law Research Institute at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Additionally, she is a state-certified Spanish interpreter who founded and managed a translation and interpretation services business in her native Ventura County. Gallardo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and a proud mother of two. A first-generation college graduate, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from UC Law San Francisco, a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pepperdine University.