Entering his 37th year of law practice, Alan Holman chairs Locke Lord’s Administrative & Regulatory Practice Group and is the firm’s senior administrative and regulatory attorney. Mr. Holman practices public utility, energy, telecommunications, environmental, and general administrative law. He is one of a select few Texas regulatory practitioners who has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 20 consecutive years. In the electric utilities area, he represents the third largest retail electric provider in Texas, as well as industrial corporations, cooperative and municipal utilities, and owners, operators, and developers of energy projects on a broad range of project development, ratemaking, rulemaking, certification, regulatory compliance, and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions. In the area of gas utility regulation, he has served as outside regulatory counsel to the nation’s largest gas-only local distribution company (“LDC”) and to Texas’ third largest LDC. In the area of telecommunications, he served as Texas regulatory counsel to the nation’s second largest interexchange carrier, as well as its local service affiliate, on regulatory, arbitration, and related litigation and business matters. He also represents real estate developers, large land owners, and public and private water and sewer utilities.
Mr. Holman represents these varied interests before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and in the trial and appellate courts, both state and federal. Mr. Holman’s administrative experience includes environmental law as well as public utility regulation and competition. His practice also extends to the legislative arena, including lobbying at the state and local levels.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Holman was legal counsel to the Texas Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs (1975-77), which played a pivotal role in creating the Texas PUC in 1975 and overseeing that agency’s early operations. From 1977 until 1981, he served as a senior administrative law judge and Assistant Director of the PUC’s Hearings Division.
Education
- J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1975
- M.A., Public Administration, The University of Texas at Austin, 1976
Texas State Fellow
Thesis: Structural and Administrative Reform of the Texas Judicial System - B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, Austin College, 1970
Rank: First in Class
Study Abroad: University of Southampton (England), Department of Politics, 1969
Bar Admissions
Admitted To Practice
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1985
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, 1980
Publications & Presentations
Professional History
- Of Counsel, Locke Lord LLP
- Partner, Brown Maroney (now Brown McCarroll) law firm (1981 - 1995)
- Assistant Director, Hearings Division & Senior Administrative Law Judge, Public Utility Commission of Texas (1977 - 1981)
- Legal Counsel, Texas Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs (1975 - 1977)
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America
- Public Utility Law (1991 - 2006)
- Energy Law (2006 - 2012)
- Communications Law (2006 - 2012)
- Listed, Texas Monthly and Law & Politics magazines as one of Texas’ public utility “Super Lawyers” (2003 ‑ 2008)
- Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Public Utility Section
- Environmental Section
- Administrative Law Section
- Member, American Bar Association
- Environment, Energy & Resources Section
Community Leadership
- Caritas Austin (Community Advisory Board)
- West Austin Youth Association (Basketball Coach)
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