Northern Wasco County People’s Utility District has selected Irene Scruggs as its new Chief Legal Officer.  Scruggs will serve as general counsel to the PUD’s Board of Directors and as a key strategic leader and partner to the General Manager and executive management team with programmatic responsibilities in several key areas of the utility.  Scruggs will assume the position in January of 2024.  Scruggs was the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Public Power Council, the region’s largest association of consumer-owned utilities.  Prior to that, Scruggs was in private practice with large firms in Portland representing business clients in commercial litigation.  As Chief Legal Officer, Scruggs will support Northern Wasco PUD’s evaluation of future power supply agreements, enterprise risk management, and corporate governance.