| Stan Wise has served on the Public Service Commission since January 1995, having been elected statewide four consecutive times. He was reelected for his fourth term as Commissioner in November 2012. His first elected public office was Cobb County Commissioner in 1990 and he served the county as a member of the Cobb County Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. Wise was a Board Member of the ten-county Atlanta Regional Commission from 1992 through 1994. |
| Stan was elected by his regulatory peers as President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in 2003 and 2004, furthering his responsibilities and interaction with Congress, federal agencies, state officials, industry leaders, Wall Street, consumer groups and the news media. Stan has testified multiple times before Congress. Wise is a past President of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) and serves on the International Relations Committee and Gas Committee of NARUC. He is also on the Advisory Council for the New Mexico State University Center for Public Utilities. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Feed the Hungry Foundation, a faith-based charity, and a member of the Action Ministries Board of Directors. |
| His alma mater, Charleston Southern University, named Wise the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 2006. In addition, he was named the Bonbright Center of the Terry College of Business Honoree of the Year in 2005. |
| He has also served on the U.S. Department of Energy State Energy Advisory Board, the Cobb County Public Schools Educational Foundation, Inc., the Board of Directors of the Cobb YMCA, the Boys Club of Cobb County and the Advisory Board of the North Georgia Law Enforcement Academy. He owned and operated an insurance business in Cobb County for twenty years. Wise was awarded his B.S. in Business Management from the Charleston Southern University in 1974. He also served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve for six years. He and his wife Denise have two grown children. |
