MISO Hires Public Service Commissioner Lamar Davis

Lamar Davis, the new executive director of government and regulatory affairs for MISO’s south region

MISO of Carmel, Indiana, announced Monday that Lamar Davis, former commissioner of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, has been named executive director of government and regulatory affairs for its south region.

Davis will begin working for MISO on Thursday. The company’s South Region Operations Center is in Little Rock. 

Then-Gov. Mike Beebe appointed him to the commission in 2015. Before that, Davis had been deputy chief of staff in the governor’s office for eight years.

He has also served as an assistant attorney general in Arkansas’ Consumer Protection Department, taught consumer law at the William H. Bowen School of Law in Little Rock and was a law clerk for the Arkansas Appeals Court.

Davis graduated from the Homeland Security Executive Leaders Program at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense & Security and received his juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

He has served on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Gas, Critical Infrastructure, and Consumer Affairs committees; the Subcommittee on Utility Marketplace Access; the Financial Research Institute Advisory Board; and the Gas Technology Institute Public Interest Advisory Committee.