Biography

Tamara Linde is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for PSEG, a Fortune 500 regulated energy infrastructure company that is powering a future where people use less energy, that’s cleaner, safer and delivered more reliably than ever. She has served in this position since July 2014. 

As PSEG’s Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, she oversees all legal matters and has responsibility for overall legal and regulatory strategy. Ms. Linde also oversees the Company’s Office of Corporate Secretary, Compliance and Claims functions in addition to several other corporate functions. Ms. Linde is a member of PSEG’s Senior Executive Team.

Previously, Ms. Linde was vice president – regulatory, leading the company’s federal and state regulatory functions.

Ms. Linde joined the law department of PSE&G in 1990 as an attorney handling a variety of natural gas and electric regulatory and transactional matters. After holding several other legal positions at PSE&G, she became general solicitor in 2000. In that position, she was responsible for the regulatory affairs of the PSEG companies including electric, gas and nuclear matters. She has significant experience working on regulatory matters before various state and federal regulatory agencies on industry issues relating to electric transmission and distribution and energy markets.

Ms. Linde received her Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University. She is a member of the bars of New Jersey, New York, the District of Columbia and Texas.

She currently serves on the boards of Essential Utilities Inc., the PSEG Foundation and serves as immediate past chair of the Board of the Community Foundation of New Jersey. In addition, Ms. Linde serves on the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR) Council and is the chair of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Legal Committee.

Ms. Linde previously served as a member of the General Counsel Steering Committee of the National Association of Corporate Directors, was past president of the Northeast chapter of the Energy Bar Association and was past chair of the Energy Bar Association Electricity Regulation and Compliance Committee.

Linde serves as a member of the corporate governance committee and the risk mitigation committee of the board.