E. Leon Jacobs, Jr., is the owner of The Law Office of Ennis Leon Jacobs, Jr. and an advocate for public policy that drives economic and social transformations. He is currently the president of the SACE Board of Directors.
An experienced consultant and attorney in Tallahassee, Florida, Jacobs brings more than 20 years of legal experience and more than 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Jacobs has been deeply involved in the formation of public policy for most of his career, with a particular focus on the issues now driving the remarkable economic and social transformations underway in the global, information-based economy. He is a former member of the Florida Elections Commission and a former member and past Chairman of the Florida Public Service Commission (“FPSC”), having served a four-year appointed term that ended in 2002. During his tenure with the FPSC, Jacobs also served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), as well as Chair of NARUC’s Consumer Affairs Committee and as Chair of NARUC’s Y2K Ad-Hoc Task Force.
Additionally, he served as President of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (an alliance of thirteen state regulatory agencies), and as Chair of the Energy Market Access Partnership Board (an alliance between NARUC and the U.S. Department of Energy fostering diversity in energy markets). Jacobs was appointed to serve on an advisory panel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Water Systems Implementation Working Group (under the National Drinking Water Advisory Council), and was appointed to serve on a public/private effort under the Consumer’s Energy Council of America to develop public policy on Distributed Generation technologies. He also testified before the U.S. Congress. Jacobs received a degree from Florida A&M University and a law degree from Florida State University College of Law.