Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Southern California Edison (electric utility)
Jill Anderson is the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities.
She leads SCE’s operations groups — including Transmission & Distribution, Power Generation, Customer Service, Engineering, Safety and Operational Services — and is responsible for safely delivering reliable, clean and affordable power to more than 15 million people in a 50,000-square-mile service area spanning Central, Coastal and Southern California.
Previously, Anderson was executive vice president and chief commercial officer at the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the country’s largest state power organization. She directed all wholesale and retail operations, including the market operations of NYPA’s generation assets. She was responsible for customer sales, marketing, new products and technology, clean energy and transportation, and energy-efficiency programs. Before this at NYPA, she led energy policy, sustainability, corporate communications, regulatory affairs and government relations departments.
She started her career at Consolidated Edison Company of New York, leading teams responsible for natural gas and electric operations, redesign of the distribution system to integrate new technologies, and electricity and natural gas procurement.
Anderson has served on the California Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors since February 2023 and serves on the board of directors of the National Safety Council, a nonprofit safety advocate that strives to eliminate the leading causes of preventable death and injury in the workplace and other areas. She also is on the board of directors of the Catalina Island Conservancy.
Anderson received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Boston University and a master’s in business administration from New York University.