David J. Bardin

David Jonas Bardin (born June 2, 1933) is a retired American government official who served as Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration in 1977 as well as Administrator of the Economic Regulatory Administration in the United States Department of Energy.

Biography Bardin was born on June 2, 1933, in New York City. He received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1954 and LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1956. He served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958.

Bardin joined the University of Virginia as lecturer in 1958 and worked as an attorney for the Federal Power Commission from 1958 to 1969. He left the FPC in 1969 as Deputy General Counsel to serve as Assistant to the Attorney General of Israel whose portfolio included public utilities, administrative and environmental law.

On March 31, 1977, he was named by President Jimmy Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration.