Lorna Luebbe, General Counsel, Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, Puget Sound Energy, Inc.
Lorna Luebbe serves as senior vice president, chief sustainability officer and general counsel for Puget Sound Energy (PSE). She is responsible for PSE’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts and progress toward PSE’s aspirational Beyond Net Zero Carbon goal. Lorna also handles complex litigation and other legal issues on behalf of PSE.
Lorna has 20 years of utility experience and has held multiple roles throughout her long tenure at PSE, most recently as assistant general counsel and director of PSE’s Environmental Services Department. Lorna has led the company on compliance, regulatory issues, environmental strategy, climate change policy and mitigation, energy infrastructure siting, permitting, due diligence, and dispute resolution matters with additional experience with real estate, energy, contracts, municipal and transactional legal work. Prior to joining PSE, Lorna worked as an environmental lawyer at Heller Ehrman, LLP, Marten and Brown. LLP, and Arcadis representing a variety of clients on environmental, energy, regulatory and compliance matters. Before her law career she worked as a hydrogeologist for an environmental engineering firm.Lorna received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both geology and economics from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from Lewis & Clark Law School with a certificate in Environmental Natural Resources Law. She is an active member of the community, serving in various roles with youth, education and conservation.
Published April 10, 2024.
