Chair
Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition
Commissioner
North Carolina Utilities Commission
Commissioner Kimberly W. Duffley was appointed to the North Carolina Utilities Commission by Governor Roy Cooper for a term commencing on July 1, 2019.
A native of North Carolina, Commissioner Duffley received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a Juris Doctor from Mercer School of Law.
Prior to joining the Utilities Commission, Commissioner Duffley was an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Division of the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. Until her appointment as a Commissioner, Ms. Duffley was a Senior Staff Attorney with the Utilities Commission and was co-chair of the Staff Subcommittee on Electricity of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).
Commissioner Duffley currently serves as Chair of the NARUC Committee on Electricity; Co-Chair of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission; Chair of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition; and a member of both the Department of Energy (DOE)-NARUC Nuclear Energy Partnership and the NARUC-National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative. She is a Board Certified Specialist in Utilities Law and serves on the NC Utilities Law Specialization Committee.
Commissioner Duffley enjoys art, travel and reading. She and her husband live in Raleigh and have two children.
