Dennis Jose Herrera

General Manager @San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

San Francisco, CA, US

Serve as General Manager and chief executive of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which provides top quality drinking water and wastewater services to the city of San Francisco, wholesale water to three Bay Area counties, and green hydroelectric and solar power to our municipal departments and commercial customers. Provide leadership and management of the agency’s public policies and strategic initiatives, and oversee all assets, resources, and functions of the 2,700 person agency and its nearly $3B budget. Joined the SFPUC in 2021 after serving as San Francisco City Attorney for nearly 20 years, where I built one of the premier public law offices in the country and spearheaded cases of national importance on civil rights, health care and environmental protection. As the SFPUC’s lawyer for nearly two decades, I was at the forefront of pivotal water, power and sewer issues facing San Francisco. I represented the agency before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, brought pioneering litigation to protect the SFPUC’s combined sewer and stormwater system from sea-level rise, and defeated a years-long attempt to drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the crown jewel of the SFPUC system.