Denise Bode (born 1954, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a nationally recognized energy policy expert and a former Corporation Commissioner of that state. Bode since January 2009 has been chief executive officer of the American Wind Energy Association, the national trade association of the U.S. wind energy industry. She announced on December 14, 2012 that she would resign effective January 1, 2013 to return to private practice as a tax attorney, telling The Hill newspaper, "I really want to get back in the fray and be an advocate." In response, the executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, called her a "fearless leader" for clean energy.