Sonnet Edmonds

Sonnet Edmonds (Atlanta, GA) is the Chair of the Nelson Institute Board of Visitors. She is an Attorney at Taylor English Duma LLP, practicing in the field of energy law. From 1998 until early 2011, Edmonds was a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Mirant Corporation (which was renamed GenOn Energy, Inc. as of December 2010). In that role, she was responsible for providing transactional, environmental, and other legal support to the company's electric generating assets across the United States. Prior to Mirant, she was an Attorney at law firms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. Sonnet received her B.A. (1989) and J.D. (1993) from UW-Madison and is involved with several energy and legal professional associations.