Past Commissioners

Below is a full list of Commissioners since the inception of the Public Service Commission in 1910 (*served as Chair):

  • Michael T. Richard (2016-2025)
  • Anthony J. O’Donnell (2016-2024)
  • 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)