Nancy Saracino

Nancy Saracino is a strategic advisor at GSCE. She brings over 20 years of experience working in the energy sector in California and the Western United States on a broad spectrum of issues, including all aspects of regulatory approvals required for transmission, generation, and storage projects at the state and federal levels. Nancy served for seven years as the Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer at CAISO. Recognized as an effective leader on a wide array of energy and water issues, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Nancy to serve as chief counsel and then chief deputy director of the California Department of Water Resources, where she also served as the Governor’s lead negotiator for restructuring the state’s long-term electricity contracts. In 2019, Nancy was selected by Governor Gavin Newsom’s Judicial Appointments Secretary to serve on a regional Judicial Selection Advisory Committee to provide feedback to the Administration on candidates for judicial appointments in California. Nancy holds a J.D. from the UC Davis School of Law and a B.A. in Economics from UC Davis.