DePaul University has elected a distinguished alumna, Anne R. Pramaggiore, president and chief operating officer of Commonwealth Edison, to its board of trustees.

“It’s especially gratifying when alumni return to serve their alma maters because they understand the university’s mission and goals so well,” said the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul. “Anne was involved as a student and continued that participation as a devoted alumna in several volunteer capacities.  It’s wonderful to welcome her now to serve as a trustee.”

A 1989 DePaul College of Law graduate, Pramaggiore, 51, oversees daily operations of a $6.1 billion, 5,900 employee electric utility.

She assumed her current position in May 2009 and in doing so became ComEd’s first woman president. She joined ComEd’s legal team in 1998 and was promoted into the regulatory area, where she became responsible for directing the company’s successful transition into an open and competitive electricity market. In 2007, after months of debate and negotiation, she helped strike an accord that provided Illinois residents with $1 billion in rate relief, while protecting ComEd from potential bankruptcy.

Prior to her current position, Pramaggiore served as executive vice president of Customer Operations, Regulatory and External Affairs, where she supervised distribution and transmission rate making, customer operations and state regulatory affairs and strategy.  Additional responsibilities included administration of environmental stewardship activities designed to promote customer satisfaction.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in communications and theatre from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Pramaggiore enrolled at DePaul, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. In addition she sat on the College of Law Alumni board from 1992 to 1997 and the university’s Alumni Association board of directors from 1996 to 1997.

Pramaggiore is active in the community. She is a member of the board of the Lookingglass Theatre, the Chicago Urban League, the Metropolitan Planning Council, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and is a member of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Committee on Conservation and Committee on Museum Education. She also is a member of The Chicago Network, an organization of diverse female professionals in the Chicago area dedicated to the advancement of women.