Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer
Natalie L. Hocken, 55, is senior vice president and chief legal officer for Berkshire Hathaway Energy. In addition, Hocken serves as the corporate secretary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy and is responsible for managing all of the legal, corporate communications, workplace inclusion, environmental policy and insurance functions for the company. Prior to taking this position, Hocken served as senior vice president in various legal and operational roles at PacifiCorp, including strategic initiatives and transmission and system operations where she was responsible for opportunities focusing on federal regulatory priorities and overseeing transmission development, open access transmission services and transmission planning for one of the largest privately held transmission systems in the western U.S. Hocken serves as an officer and director of several Berkshire Hathaway Energy businesses and is president of NVE Insurance Company, Inc.
Hocken also serves as a director of The Freshwater Trust, an organization committed to the protection and restoration of freshwater ecosystems.
Prior to joining PacifiCorp in 2002, Hocken was an energy attorney with the law firms of Heller Ehrman LLP and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP. Hocken is a graduate of the University of Washington and the University of Oregon School of Law.