Commissioner Michael C. Moffet

Michael C. Moffet was appointed to the Kansas Corporation Commission by Governor Kathleen Sebelius on June 25, 2004.

Moffet has served in regulatory and public service capacities at the state and federal levels. His governmental roles included serving as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, Aviation Subcommittee, and as a legislative assistant to former Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum. In that capacity, he handled legislation on energy, transportation, banking and foreign affairs.

Moffet’s previous regulatory experience included service as assistant administrator for policy, planning and international aviation for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He was also a special assistant to the Administrator of the FAA.

Moffet has been employed by Public Strategies, a Texas public affairs consulting company that provided advice to the President of SBC, Kansas, on legislative and regulatory affairs.

Moffet has been named to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Committee on Telecommunications.

A native of Norton, Kansas, Moffet graduated from the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science degree, with Distinction, from the William Allen White School of Journalism in 1972. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1975.

Moffet and his wife, Pat, and their two children live in Lawrence.

Commissioner Moffet is serving a four-year term that expires March 15, 2008.