Gov. Rauner Appoints Two To Five-Year Terms as Illinois Commerce Committee Commissioners

Effective January 19, 2018, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner appointed Anastasia Palivos and D. Ethan Kimbrel to five-year terms at the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC).

Both had been serving as Acting Commissioners

Prior to her appointment, Acting Commissioner Palivos was the ICC’s legal and policy advisor to the chairman from April 2015 to July 2016, and most recently worked as a business development strategy analyst for a Chicago-based health intelligence firm.

Acting Commissioner Kimbrel has worked as an administrative law judge for the ICC since 2007, and its chief administrative law judge since April 2015. Prior to working at the ICC, Kimbrel provided legal work for a number of Chicago law offices. He also worked as a legislative analyst for the Office of the Illinois Senate President in the late 1990s and as a judicial law clerk for the Illinois Appellate Court in Chicago in the early 2000s.

The appointments of Palivos and Kimbrel await confirmation by the Illinois State Senate.