The Regulatory Affairs Manager is responsible for general supervision of two discrete areas of the utility: environmental, health and safety programs and planning; and legislative and administrative affairs. She also serves as administrator and advisor to the General Manager on major long-term utility projects. The person in this position is appointed by the General Manager with the approval of the Mayor of Springfield.

The current Regulatory Affairs Manager is Christine Zeman. Christine joined CWLP in January 2009, after representing the utility in an environmental case before the Illinois Pollution Control Board. Christine has practiced environmental and administrative law in both private practice and the public sector. She represented state agencies for several years as an assistant attorney general in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office and, prior to that, served on the staff of the Illinois General Assembly through the legislative internship program of Sangamon State University, now the University of Illinois Springfield. In 1991, she joined a longstanding private law firm in the City. From 1995 until joining CWLP, she was one of three named partners in a local law firm concentrating its practice in environmental law.