About FERC 
Office of Enforcement
Susan J. Court, Director
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Susan J. Court was appointed by Chairman Joseph Kelliher in November 2005 to serve as Director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Enforcement. Joining the Commission as an attorney-advisor in 1982, Ms. Court has worked in every area of its jurisdiction (natural gas, electric, oil, and hydropower). She served as a commissioner's assistant and executive assistant to the chairman before becoming a senior agency manager in 1986, when she was appointed Associate General Counsel for Gas and Oil, leading the Commission's legal staff responsible for developing and implementing the agency's natural gas open access program. Ms. Court subsequently served as Deputy Solicitor, Associate General Counsel for General and Administrative Law, Designated Agency Ethics Official, and Chief of Staff. Immediately before her appointment as OE Director, she was on assignment in the European Union.
A Kentucky native, Ms. Court has a B.A. in History from Thomas More College, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, an M.A. in European History from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and a J.D. from Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky. Before her career with the Federal Government, Ms. Court worked in Kentucky state government, as Research Director to Governor Louie B. Nunn and Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert O. Lukowsky. She has two children, both of whom are Federal employees, and resides with her husband in Alexandria, Virginia.
