CHRIS ANDERSON

General Counsel
Rayburn Electric Cooperative

Chris Anderson is General Counsel of Rayburn Electric Cooperative. He is the company’s Chief Legal Officer, managing internal legal staff as well as outside counsel, and leads Rayburn’s Human Resources team. He oversees the corporate risk management and compliance program, and serves on Rayburn’s Executive Team, which is responsible for company strategy development and implementation.

Chris spent 27 years at ALLETE, Inc., a publicly-held company with regulated utility operations and renewable energy ventures. As Associate General Counsel, he successfully represented the company before the Minnesota Public Utility Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, led mergers and acquisitions, and provided strategic direction on a range of state and federal regulatory matters. He also served as General Counsel for several ALLETE subsidiaries and was a founding member of the company’s corporate compliance and ethics team.

Prior to joining Rayburn, Chris served as Director of Legal Affairs at Twin Metals Minnesota, LLC, where he led legal efforts for a proposed copper, nickel, and cobalt mine undergoing environmental permitting. His contributions included managing litigation strategy, overseeing corporate governance, leading tribal relations initiatives and developing company-wide ethics policies and training programs.

Chris serves as a Justice on the Court of Appeals for the Bois Forte Band and is an election appeals judge at Bois Forte as well as with the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.