Catherine J.K. Sandoval is a tenured Law Professor at Santa Clara University who teaches and conducts research on Communications, Energy, Antitrust, and Contract law. Her scholarship analyzes legal and policy drivers of energy, communications, and water infrastructure safety, reliability, access, and equity gaps, and climate change. She served a six-year term as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, appointed by Governor Brown. THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL ST. JOURNAL, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS and many other publications have cited her regulatory, infrastructure, communications and antitrust law expertise. The D.C. Circuit’s 2019 Mozilla v. FCC decision cited Professor Sandoval’s comments to remand the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality repeal for failure to analyze the link between net neutrality and public safety. Professor Sandoval hails from a trailer park and the barrio of East Los Angeles and became the first in her family to earn a B.A. degree. She was the first Latina selected as a Rhodes Scholar, the first tenured Latina Law Professor at SCU Law, and the first Latinx CPUC Commissioner. She earned a B.A. from Yale University, a Master of Letters from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.