Jill S. Tietjen (born 1954) is an American electrical engineer, consultant, women's advocate, author, and speaker.
She is the president and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc., an electric utilities consulting firm which she founded in Greenwood Village, Colorado, in 2000.
[5][6] She graduated from Hampton High School[5] and entered the third class opened to women at the University of Virginia, in 1972.
During the latter period, she served as an expert witness for electric utilities before Federal and state regulatory commissions.
[6][3] With an eye to supplying more role models for women, she regularly nominates candidates for awards and halls of fame in the engineering and technology fields.
Tietjen accepted the award on Hopper's behalf from President George H. W. Bush at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.
[2][9] Tietjen has nominated more than 30 inductees to the National Women's Hall of Fame across all fields of endeavor.
[8] She gave presentations on nuclear power for that company, and later used her speaking skills to deliver expert testimony for electric utilities before Federal and state regulatory commissions.
[14] In 1976 she married her first husband, a fellow engineering student whom she met at the University of Virginia, becoming known as Jill S.