Prior to joining L. E. Peabody & Associates, Inc., Ms. Scroggins was employed by a business and litigation consulting firm for five years as a research and market analyst. Ms. Scroggins performed crude oil and petroleum product market analyses, collected data and produced analytical reports from proprietary energy industry databases, constructed spreadsheet computer models for use in litigation, and researched public databases for information relevant to specific litigation issues.

Ms. Scroggins was primarily responsible for monitoring the retail electricity market in the District of Columbia to ensure that the market was not being adversely affected by anticompetitive conduct. For both residential and commercial retail electric power markets in the District, Ms. Scroggins collected information on the demand for electricity and on the rates, prices, and cost savings available to ratepayers. Ms. Scroggins designed a 40-page training manual that outlined how to effectively analyze and monitor the retail electricity market in the District.