Larry S. Landis, a Republican, was founder and President of Marketrends, Inc., a marketing/communication company in Indianapolis; and cofounder of American Grassroots LLC, prior to being appointed to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in January 2003 by Indiana's late Governor Frank O'Bannon (D-IN). He was reappointed to a full term by former Governor Joe Kernan (D-IN) in July of 2004 and reappointed by Governor Mitch Daniels in December of 2007. In August, 2003, he was named to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) Telecommunications Committee and is active in a number of roles on that Committee. Landis served on NARUC's Legislative Task Force, charged with developing recommendations for a rewrite of the nation's telecommunications laws, was Vice Chair of NARUC's Intercarrier Compensation Task Force, was appointed to the Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services in January, 2005 and is a member of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service. Landis is the only state Commissioner currently holding both a Joint Conference and a Joint Board appointment from the FCC.