Past Commissioners

Commissioners since the inception of the Public Service Commission in 1910 (*served as Chair):

• Jason M. Stanek* (2018-2023)
• Odogwu Obi Linton (2017-2023)
• Patrice M. Bubar (2022-2023)
• Mindy L. Herman (2017-2022)
• Jeannette M. Mills (2015-2017)
• Anne E. Hoskins (2013-2016)
• W. Kevin Hughes* (2011-2018)
• Kelly Speakes-Backman (2011-2015)
• Therese M. Goldsmith (2009-2011)
• Douglas R.M. Nazarian* (2008-2013)
• Lawrence Brenner (2007-2016)
• Susanne Brogan (2007-2011)
• Steven B. Larsen* (2007-2008)
• Charles R. Boutin (2005-2007)
• Karen A. Smith (2005-2006)
• Allen M. Freifeld (2004-2009)
• Kenneth D. Schisler* (2003-2007)
• Harold D. Williams (2002-2017)
• Ronald A. Guns (2001-2004)
• Gail C. McDonald (2001-2004)
• J. Joseph Curran, III (1999-2005)
• Catherine I. Riley* (1999-2003) First Female Chair
• Glenn F. Ivey* (1998-2000)
• H. Russell Frisby, Jr.* (1995-1998) First African American Chair
• Gerald L. Thorpe (1994-1999)
• E. Mason Hendrickson (1992-1999)
• Susanne Brogan (1992-2001)
• Victor Cushwa (1990-died in office September 20, 1991)
• Linda M. Thomas (1986-1990)
• Claude M. Ligon (1985-2002)
• Frank O. Heintz* (1982-1995) The Commission’s Hearing Room is named in his honor
• Haskell N. Arnold (1980-1984) First African American Commissioner
• Wayne B. Hamilton (1979-1985)
• George A. Shehan (1978-1979)
• Lilo K. Schifter (1978-1994) First Female Commissioner
• H. Reese Shoemaker (1977-1979)
• William A. Badger (1977-1991)
• Thomas J. Hatem* (1976-1982)
• Michael Darr Barnes (1975-1978)
• M. Bayne Brooke, Substitute Commissioner (1972-1976; position of Substitute Commissioner abolished 1976)
• William S. Baldwin (1971-1978)
• Robert L. Sullivan, Jr.* (1971-1976)
• William O. Doub* (1968-1971)
• H. Reese Shoemaker, Jr. (1967-1975)
• Solomon Liss* (1964-1968)
• Charles E. Edmondson (1961-1971)
• Edward D. Storm (1961-1967)
• Albert L. Sklar* (1958-1964)
• Francis V. DuPont (1957-1961)
• Stanford Hoff* (1955-1961)
• Wilmer Fell Davis (1951-1957)
• Olin R. Higgins (1949-1951)
• Frank Harper (1948-died in office April 3, 1958)
• John H. Hessey* (1948-1955)
• Thomas Elmo Jones (1946-1948)
• Charles B. Bosley* (1942-1948)
• Arthur H. Brice (1941-1949)
• Edmund Budnitz (1937-1942)
• Harry O. Levin (1937)
• O. E. Weller* (1935-1941)
• Steuart Purcell* (1927-died in office April 18, 1946)
• Harold E. West* (1924-1935)
• Ezra B. Whitman* (1921-1927)
• William Milnes Maloy* (1920-1924)
• J. Frank Harper (1919-died in office January 17, 1937)
• James C. Legg (1918-died in office February 1, 1921)
• John Milton Reifsnider* (1917- died in office March 19, 1920)
• Philip D. Laird (1916-1917)
• W. Laird Henry (1914-1916)
• Albert G. Towers* (1913-1919)
• E. Clay Timanus (1912-1918)
• Benjamin T. Fendall (1912)
• Joshua W. Hering (1910-1913)
• Philip D. Laird* (1910-1914)
• James M. Ambler* (1910-1912)