Sam Brumberg serves as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel to the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives. He joined the Association in 2012 after almost 7 years of private practice at an AmLaw 200 firm.

For well over a decade, he has been an advocate for clean, safe, affordable, and reliable energy and broadband for the rural mid-Atlantic.

Sam’s legal practice focuses on legislative and regulatory affairs. He also supports the member utilities and affiliates of the Association.

Sam graduated summa cum laude from the University of Richmond, with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and while there was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Sam studied law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, where he was the managing editor of, and published in, the law school’s Environmental Law and Policy Review.

During law school, he served a clerkship at the Virginia State Corporation Commission’s Office of General Counsel. In 2014, he served as Chair of the Virginia State Bar’s Administrative Law Section. In 2016-18, he served as President for the Energy Bar Association’s Southern Chapter. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar’s Administrative Law Section Board of Governors. In 2020, he was a finalist candidate for a judicial appointment to the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Sam’s personal interests are aviation, horology, numismatics, Japanology. He is married with one step-son and lives in Short Pump, Virginia.