04 May 2026
Barnes & Thornburg Adds Former Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner Angela Weber as Counsel
"Barnes & Thornburg hires Angela Weber as counsel in its Government Services and Finance Department to bolster the Energy and Utilities practice; she will advise on regulatory matters before the IURC and state commissions."
Weber will advise utilities and other entities in matters before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) and other state regulatory commissions. Her work will include counseling clients on general rate cases, periodic rate adjustment (tracker) proceedings, certificate of public convenience and necessity cases, preapprovals, financings, acquisitions, disputes, investigations, rulemakings and service area-related cases.
Weber was appointed to the IURC in 2014 by then-Governor Mike Pence and served until her appointment expired in 2018. Before her IURC appointment she worked as a utility lawyer in private practice and earlier served as a Marion County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Indianapolis, as a staff attorney for the Indiana Department of Education, and as an Administrative Law Judge for the IURC. After serving as a Commissioner, Weber worked at the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) as an Executive Director in the Regulatory Compliance department and as MISO’s Executive Director of Incident Response.
A U.S. Army veteran, Weber earned her law degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2006 and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1996. She is past chair of the Utility Law Section of the Indiana State Bar Association, past president of the Organization of MISO States, and an alumna of the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series.