Commissioner
Mindy Herman is a Commissioner for the Maryland Public Service Commission.
The PUF team had a warm welcome at the PSC offices in Baltimore on the upper floors of the William Donald Schaefer building. Maryland punches well above its weight, with an expansive grid modernization portfolio, ambitious electric vehicle and charging programs, utility-scale batteries deployed as grid assets, and more, backed up by a diverse renewable generation portfolio and nuclear power at the Calvert Cliffs plant. All this is made possible by the Commission Staff of some one hundred and fifty, required by statute to be located in Baltimore, so legislative business entails a drive to Annapolis. Five Commissioners lead this accomplished Staff, and they all have a lot to say about what makes Maryland special and unique.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: How did your background lead you to be appointed as a Commissioner here?
Commissioner Herman: I have an extensive background in the industry. I started right before law school. It was hard to get a job back in the early eighties, but I got a job as a Xerox girl at a law firm.
After a couple of years, I decided, hey, I could do that, I could be a lawyer, and I was tired of giving all that information to the lawyers. I went to law school and then got a job with a firm that did energy law. That's how it was back then. When you worked for a law firm, you did what they did, and that's how I started.