Jon Kendrick joined the California Chamber of Commerce in January 2025 as a policy advocate focused on energy, climate, and transportation policy issues.
Before joining the CalChamber policy team, Kendrick was senior counsel in the Sacramento office of Buchalter where he was a member of the law firm’s Energy & Natural Resources and Real Estate Practice Groups. He regularly advised clients on transactional, regulatory and compliance issues for energy and real estate matters. Kendrick helped clients navigate California’s ever-evolving regulatory environment and represented clients in matters before administrative agencies such as the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission.
Kendrick previously served as in-house counsel for Pacific Coast Companies, Inc., a building supply company, as well as representing clients in power plant siting proceedings while at the law firm of Locke Lord, and real estate matters while at the Sacramento area law firm Murphy Austin.
Kendrick was also previously a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Robert Molloy of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands and taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine.
Kendrick earned a B.A. in international political economy at the University of Puget Sound, and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis, School of Law