Amy Yip-Kikugawa, Assistant General Counsel

Advocacy II

Amy Yip-Kikugawa is Assistant General Counsel in the Commission’s Legal Division, where she leads team of advocacy attorney supporting the Public Advocates Office and the Commission’s enforcement divisions. Her primary areas of focus are utility ratemaking (including general rate cases and financing applications), electric and natural gas safety oversight, and telecommunications and water issues.

Amy joined the Commission in 2000 as an attorney in the Legal Division’s State Appellate Practice section, where she handled appeals on a variety of energy issues, including those arising from the Energy Crisis. She transferred to the Administrative Law Judge Division in 2007, working on energy ratemaking and adjudicatory proceedings. While in ALJ Division, she served as Assistant Chief ALJ.  Between 2009 and 2010, she served as Legal and Water advisor to Commissioner John Bohn.  In 2015, Amy returned to Legal Division, and was promoted to Assistant General Counsel in 2016. Between May 2021 and February 2022, Amy served as Acting Director for the Public Advocates Office.

Before joining the Commission, Amy worked in the financial services industry as both a management consultant for two large CPA firms and a money manager for a small investment advisory firm. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, her MBA from the Ohio State University, and her JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law.