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             California Public Utilities Commission
505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 5301            San Francisco, CA 94102
CONTACT: Dianne Dienstein                May 9, 1996   CPUC - 43
         415-703-2423

              P. GREGORY CONLON NOW CPUC PRESIDENT
    P. Gregory Conlon is now President of the California Public
Utilities Commission (CPUC).  His colleagues elected Conlon
President last December with the understanding that then
president Daniel Wm. Fessler, who had served as President for the
last four years, would continue until April 30 and then Conlon
would take over.
    Conlon was appointed to the Commission for a six year term by
Governor Pete Wilson on February 11, 1993.
    Prior to coming to the Commission, Conlon spent more than 30
years with Arthur Andersen & Co. auditing and consulting in the
energy and telecommunications industries.  He also served as an
audit or audit advisory partner for a number of utilities in the
Western United States.
    Conlon is a member of the California Transportation
Commission, Vice-President of the Western Conference of Public
Service Commissioners, and a member of the National Association
of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Communications Committee.
    He graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of
Science degree in accounting.  He is a member of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Society
of CPAs, and the American Accounting Association.  In 1991, he
completed a comprehensive Executive Education Program at the Haas
School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
    President Conlon is active in civic affairs serving on the
Boards of the Industry Education Council of California and the
Industry Council for Technology in Learning.  Both organizations
are leading businesses in a significant effort to solve the
education crisis in California.  Conlon has also served on the
Board of Directors for Self-Help for the Elderly, a large
Chinatown social service organization in San Francisco.     ###