Colette D. Honorable

Colette D. Honorable
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Exelon Corporation

Colette D. Honorable is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Exelon Corporation, the nation's largest utility, leading a team of professionals engaged in legal efforts across Exelon and its operating companies. Honorable also oversees public policy, legislative, regulatory affairs, and corporate giving. Honorable is a member of Exelon's Executive Committee as well as the Exelon Foundation Board.

Prior to serving as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Honorable served as EVP and Chief External Affairs Officer at Exelon. She joined Exelon in September 2023 from global law firm Reed Smith LLP, where Honorable was an equity partner, head of the firm’s energy regulatory group, and member of the Executive Committee.

Prior to the firm, Honorable was nominated by President Barack Obama and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as a Commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. During her term, she worked alongside her colleagues to oversee the reliability of the electric grid in the United States. Her areas of oversight included cyber and physical security, wholesale markets, transmission planning, infrastructure development, renewable energy and storage integration, gas and electric coordination, and ratemaking and enforcement matters.

Prior to joining FERC, she spent several years on the Arkansas Public Service Commission, including serving as commissioner, interim chairman, and chairman. Prior to joining the Arkansas PSC, Colette served as chief of staff to the Arkansas Attorney General and as a member of the governor's cabinet as Executive Director of the Arkansas Workforce Investment Board. Her previous employment includes serving as an attorney at the Center for Arkansas Legal Services, as a consumer protection and civil litigation attorney, and as a senior assistant attorney general in Medicaid fraud and as an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and Special Judge of the Pulaski County Circuit Court.

Honorable has testified before Congress on several occasions and is called upon to advise and conduct peer reviews for the National Academies of Sciences and several branches of the U.S. Government. She has advised presidential personnel and transition teams, as well as members of Congress on energy, equity, and inclusion issues, and has provided technical advice and counsel on these topics to several nations worldwide as a courtesy to the State Department and at the request of foreign governments.

She has served on the boards of Southern Company, the Electric Power Research Institute, Summit Utilities, Southern Bancorp (a community development bank) and served on the EPRI Advisory Council.

Honorable serves on the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Board of Directors and is active in several policy-focused organizations, including The Executive Leadership Council, The Economic Club, the American Association of Blacks in Energy, the Energy Bar Association, National Bar Association, Women's Council on Energy and the Environment, the Women's Energy Resource Council, and the National Academies of Sciences’ Board on Energy and Environmental System. She is also a global advisory board member with the Energy Futures Initiative, a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and serves as vice chair of the Energy Regulators Regional Association's Strategic Advisory Board. Additionally, she is an inaugural member of the William Jefferson Clinton School of Public Service Advisory Board and is on the HBR Advisory Council. She has a passion for mentoring and co-led an effort to establish an international mentoring program for women in energy regulation for the International Confederation of Energy Regulators. She is an Ambassador for the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Initiative, an effort co-led by the U.S. Department of Energy and the MIT Energy Initiative formed under the auspices of the International Clean Energy Ministerial. Honorable is a life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Colette received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Memphis and received a juris doctor degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.