Dana M. Shelton

Practice Areas

Energy & Natural Resources

Energy Regulation and Utilities

Business Litigation

Career

Dana Shelton has practiced law with Stone Pigman for more than two decades and has become an integral part of the firm’s long tradition of providing exceptional legal service in the public utility arena. She has extensive experience handling contested regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and appellate courts, having handled numerous high-stakes matters that have garnered significant energy rate savings for the ratepayers she represents.

She was an integral part of the legal team that successfully petitioned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for an unprecedented electric energy cost equalization mechanism that achieved more than $800 million in rate savings for Louisiana’s electric consumers. Most recently, she has been one of the lead lawyers representing the Louisiana Public Service Commission in seeking reduced rates that are charged to consumers for power from the Grand Gulf nuclear plant.

Dana also has experience navigating the stakeholder process in regional transmission organizations, working on transmission tariffs, rulemakings, and cost allocation policy development. She has handled environmental regulatory and litigation matters, as well as commercial disputes in the areas of leasing, insurance and products liability.

Professional Memberships

Louisiana State Bar Association member and Past Chair of the Public Utility Section.

Energy Bar Association member and President of the New Orleans Chapter.

Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States member.

Louisiana Bar Foundation Fellow.

Served on an Energy Policy Task Force for the City of New Orleans.

Dana served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, where she taught a course in Energy Law and Policy for five years. She has also been a guest lecturer on the topic of Public Utility Regulation and Evidence Law at Tulane and Louisiana State University Law Schools.