The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has appointed two new administrative law judges, Jeremy Hessler and Matthew J. Vlissides Jr.
Prior to his appointment, Hessler served as a supervisory attorney in the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ). Hessler began his legal career as a law clerk in OALJ. Following his clerkship, he became an honors attorney in the Environmental and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice. He then returned to FERC where he served as an attorney advisor in the Office of General Counsel. Hessler received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Riverside, a Master of Arts from University College Dublin, and a Juris Doctor from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
Hessler is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice in federal courts.
Prior to his appointment, Vlissides served in FERC’s Office of the General Counsel from 2010 to 2022 as an attorney-advisor and then as a aupervisory attorney-advisor in the Energy Markets Section. Before joining FERC, Vlissides was in private practice representing clients in intellectual property disputes in federal court, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He began his legal career as an Attorney-Advisor in the USITC’s Office of Administrative Law Judges.
Vlissides earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia and his Juris Doctor from George Washington University School of Law. He also holds a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago. Vlissides is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Commonwealth of Virginia (associate status), and he is registered as a patent attorney with the USPTO.
