Sacramento Municipal Utility District Board of Directors Member Gregg Fishman

Gregg Fishman began serving on the SMUD Board of Directors in January 2015. He represents Ward 3, covering East Sacramento, much of the Arden-Arcade area, and the Campus Commons, College Glen, Vintage Park and Rosemont neighborhoods, as well as parts of Carmichael. As president of the SMUD Board in 2018, he led the utility in passing its Integrated Resource Plan, hailed by the California Energy Commission as “an ambitious road map for lowering greenhouse gas emissions in the Sacramento region.” 

During his varied career, Fishman has been a news reporter and anchor at KFBK and KGO Radio, a public information officer at SMUD and the California Independent System Operator (California ISO), and communications coordinator for the California State Association of Counties. He is an active volunteer with the Sacramento Tree Foundation and has led a neighborhood effort that has planted more than 2,000 new trees since 2001. He is a graduate of CSU Sacramento with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He and his wife live in Arden Park and are the parents of two daughters.