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Jason Bentley is an attorney with MML&K Government Solutions and maintains a growing energy and regulatory practice at the firm. He previously served as majority counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy & Commerce, where he worked for three successive Chairmen. While on the Committee, Jason was responsible for developing significant provisions in the recently enacted Barton-Domenici Energy Policy Act of 2005. Jason returned to his native Kentucky as part of Governor Ernie Fletcher’s Administration, first as General Counsel and Policy Advisor to the Kentucky Public Service Commission, and then as Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Energy Policy, a newly-created office responsible for overseeing Kentucky’s first-ever comprehensive energy strategy. In that role, he served as the Governor’s alternate on the Southern States Energy Board and chaired the annual SSEB meeting at the 2005 conference of the Southern Governors’ Association. Jason graduated from Centre College in 1994 and the Vermont Law School in 1999, where he earned dual degrees in law and environmental law. In 1998, Jason was a visiting scholar with the Development Law Service of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy, and is currently designated as Kentucky’s Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to the U.S. Trade Representative.