Denise Bode

Who is Denise Bode?

Denise Bode is a nationally recognized energy policy expert and a former Corporate Commissioner of that state.

Bode since January 2009 has been Chief Executive Officer of the American Wind Energy Association, www.awea.org, the national trade association of the U.S. wind energy industry. She announced Dec. 14, 2012 that she would resign effective Jan. 1, 2013 to return to private practice as a tax attorney, telling The Hill newspaper, "I really want to get back in the fray and be an advocate." In response, the executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, called her a "fearless leader" for clean energy.

Appointed to the Corporate Commission by Governor Frank Keating, Bode took office on August 20, 1997 and was elected on November 3, 1998 with over 60% of the vote, a record for a Republican running statewide for the first time. She was reelected to her second full term in November, 2004. In January 2005 she began her second and last six-year term in office, having won reelection by the most votes ever garnered by a Republican candidate for an Oklahoma state-wide office.