2021 AAPL Annual Meeting

Jimmie Cho is chief operating officer for Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), a Sempra Energy regulated California utility.

Previously, he was senior vice president of customer service for SoCalGas and gas distribution operations for SoCalGas and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). Before that, Cho held increasingly responsible management roles in the areas of gas transmission and storage operations; engineering and major projects; human resources, diversity and inclusion; customer communications, research and web strategy; safety and emergency services; and customer service field operations.

In addition to his tenure with Sempra Energy, he formerly served as director of resource conservation and public outreach at the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, a member agency of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and started his professional career as a project engineer for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.

Cho serves on the board of directors of the National Utilities Diversity Council and the Los Angeles Police Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Brown University and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Stanford University.

Monika U. Ehrman is currently visiting professor of Law at the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law, where she will be joining full time in the fall of 2021. She is also professor of Law and faculty director of the Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she leads the energy program. Her scholarly interests are in the area of oil and gas real property issues, the intersection between law and petroleum technology and energy policy. Her courses include Oil & Gas Law, International Petroleum Transactions, Energy Negotiations, Property, Oil & Gas Contracts and Remedies. She has taught in the J.D. and graduate programs at OU Law and in the Executive Energy Management Program at the OU Price College of Business. Prior to teaching, she served as general counsel of a privately held oil and gas company in Dallas, senior counsel with Pioneer Natural Resources and associate attorney at Locke Lord LLP. Before law school, Ehrman worked as a petroleum engineer in the upstream, midstream and pipeline sectors of the energy industry. In addition to her technical experience, she also worked as an analyst in the areas of commodity risk management and energy trading. In 2019, Ehrman was appointed to the board of directors for Matador Resources Company, where she sits on the Audit, ESG, and Operations and Engineering committees. She is a trustee for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, in addition to an advisory board member for the Institute for Energy Law. She is also the vice president of Education for the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, where she was also the 2018 Professor in Residence. Ehrman received her bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Alberta; J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law; and master’s in law from Yale Law School. During law school, she was research assistant to Professor John Lowe at SMU and to the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy.