Maryland Public Service Commissioner Anthony J. O’Donnell, who has been a member of the Maryland Public Service Commission for nearly eight years, retired on June 1, the commission said.

O’Donnell, a Republican, represented Calvert County in the House of Delegates from 1995 to 2016, when he was appointed by then-Gov. Larry Hogan to fill out the unexpired term of Anne Hoskins. He was reappointed by Hogan in 2o21. Gov. Wes Moore will choose O’Donnell’s replacement.

The five-member commission regulates electric and gas utilities, and passenger-for-hire transportation companies in Maryland. While on the PSC, O’Donnell served as chair of the Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues–Waste Disposal and as a member of the Committee on Electricity for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. In 2021, he was elected president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Commission Chair Frederick H. Hoover said in a prepared statement that O’Donnell “could be tough on the regulated companies that came before the Commission, always with an eye towards protecting Maryland utility ratepayers.”

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