Lynda Ziegler

Lynda Ziegler is executive vice president for Power Delivery Services at Southern California Edison (SCE), which serves more than 14 million people in 15 counties of Central, Coastal and Southern California and is one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric utilities. She is responsible for the broad continuum of operations that enable SCE to provide safe and reliable electricity service to 4.9 million customers, including oversight of the Transmission & Distribution Business Unit, the Customer Service Business Unit, Operations Support, and Information Technology.

Previously, as senior vice president for Customer Service, Ziegler oversaw customer experience, industry-leading demand-side management programs, and implementation of advanced metering, as well as phone center activities, field services, account management, and local public affairs.

Ziegler began her career at SCE in 1981 as a conservation-planning consultant. She held a variety of positions including service planner and manager of energy efficiency, customer service and major accounts. Under her leadership, SCE has been a leader in energy efficiency, winning the EPA/DOE ENERGY STAR award nine times, and over the last five years, partnering with customers to save enough energy to power 965,000 homes. She is leading the deployment of SCE’s Edison SmartConnect™ meters which will help customers save energy and add to SCE’s existing portfolio of 1600 MW of demand-response capability.

Ziegler is chair of EPRI’s Energy Utilization Executive Committee and a member of EEI’s Customer and Energy Services Executive Advisory Committee. She is a founding board member of the Association of Women in Water, Energy and Environment, and a board member of the Alliance to Save Energy, and was recently added to the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center board of advisors. She served as secretary on the board of Partners in Care Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving health care policy through demonstrating success. Ziegler recently served as a contributor to the National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP), which developed multi-stakeholder consensus recommendations for a forward-looking American transportation policy. Ziegler also served for more than three years on the board of directors of Leadership California, an organization dedicated to educating high-level women on California issues and encouraging women's leadership in policy and public office.

She earned an M.B.A. at California State University, Fullerton, and a bachelor of science degree in marketing from California State University, Long Beach. In addition, she has participated in two special management development programs at SCE.