| Stan Wise has served on the Commission since January 1995 and served as Commission Chairman in 1997, 1999, 2006 and 2011. He was first elected to public office as a Cobb County Commissioner in 1990 and had previously served that county as a member of the Cobb County Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. Wise was a Board Member of the ten-county Atlanta Regional Commission from 1992-1994.
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| Stan has served his state as President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in 2003-2004 furthering his responsibilities and interaction with Congress, Federal agencies, state officials, industry leaders, Wall Street, consumer groups and the news media. Stan has testified multiple times before Congress on matters related to energy, nuclear waste, telecommunications and pipeline safety. Wise is a past President of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) and serves on the International Relations Committee and Gas Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). He is also on the Advisory Council for the New Mexico State University Center for Public Utilities.
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| Charleston Southern University named Wise the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year. In addition, he was named the Bonbright Center of the Terry College of Business Honoree of the Year in 2005.
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| He has also served on the U.S. Department of Energy State Energy Advisory Board, the Cobb County Public Schools Educational Foundation, Inc., the Board of Directors of the Cobb YMCA, the Boys Club of Cobb County and the Advisory Board of the North Georgia Law Enforcement Academy. He owned and operated an insurance business in Cobb County for twenty years. Wise was awarded his B.S. in Business Management from the Charleston Southern University in 1974. He and his wife Denise have two grown children.
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