The Public Utilities Staff was created in 1990 to represent the broad interests of the State of Mississippi by balancing the respective concerns of the residential, commercial and industrial utility customers, the state agencies and the public utilities.
The Staff is headed by the Executive Director and is composed of 28 members with a variety of technical expertise (engineering, accounting, legal, economics, telecommunications and policy). There are five divisions: Legal; Administrative Services; Economics and Planning; Water and Sewer; and Electric, Gas, and Communications.