Robert L. Harris

Robert L. Harris currently serves as Vice President of Environmental Affairs at Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) in San Francisco. He began his career as an attorney with PG&E, and in 1985 argued and won a major corporate free speech case for PG&E in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Harris has also completed advanced management programs as Harvard and Duke Universities Business Schools. A former President of the National Bar Association and of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity (Grand Polemarch), he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Blacks in Energy and currently serves as its General Counsel. Mr. Harris was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony Magazine in 1980, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.