Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2001 
Katherine McDowell is an attorney at McDowell Rackner Gibson PC in Portland, Oregon, where her practice centers on Energy Law and Energy Regulatory Law, with a significant focus on litigation involving regulatory enforcement matters. She advises utilities and energy companies on a broad range of regulatory and administrative law issues, including ratemaking, resource development and acquisition, compliance with environmental mandates, industry restructuring, and utility mergers and acquisitions.
Katherine regularly represents clients before state and federal regulatory bodies throughout the western United States, including commissions in Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Arizona. Her experience also includes matters before the Bonneville Power Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In addition, she handles litigation and appeals arising from final orders issued by administrative agencies, including Regulatory Enforcement matters involving the SEC, telecommunications, and energy-related issues.
