{"id":13089,"date":"2022-10-20T09:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=13089"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:51:32","slug":"elizabethtown-college-political-science-alumna-appointed-as-puc-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/elizabethtown-college-political-science-alumna-appointed-as-puc-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Political Science Alumna Appointed as a Pa. PUC Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Alumna Kathryn L. Zerfuss \u201903 was appointed as a Commissioner on the <\/span>Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission\u2019s (PUC)<\/span><\/a> five-member panel.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Political Science major while at Etown, Zerfuss was nominated by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, and approved by the Pennsylvania Senate following unanimous recommendations by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee. Zerfuss, along with two additional recently appointed commissioners, were sworn in during a private ceremony in Harrisburg. Her term will expire on April 1, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her confirmation testimony before the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee, Commissioner Zerfuss said she respects the mission of the PUC and will work in a transparent, bipartisan way on the pressing utility-related issues that impact the individuals, families, and businesses of the Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything that I have done in my almost 20 years in Harrisburg has prepared me to become a public utility commissioner and taught me something about the Commission\u2019s constituencies,\u201d Zerfuss explained. \u201cI have good judgment, a fair and balanced approach, and an intellectual curiosity that drives me to seek out facts, research, and find answers to questions. I always try to work in a transparent, bipartisan way to find a common solution for all. I respect the mission of the agency and will work tirelessly to learn the issues that impact individuals, families and businesses.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kathryn L. Zerfuss \u201903<\/p><\/div>\n

Commissioner Zerfuss is a highly regarded government affairs strategist, public servant, and trusted adviser who has spent nearly 20 years advancing regulatory and policy issues with a concentration in education, workforce development, worker protections, tax fairness, victim rights and the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

She joined the Office of Governor Tom Wolf in the beginning of his second term as a deputy secretary for legislative affairs. Among many of her key initiatives and contributions in this position, she established the PASmart initiative to encourage students, workers, and businesses to collaborate on programs that meet the needs of a 21st-century workforce and secured Pennsylvania\u2019s first tax credit to help working families with childcare.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the PUC<\/strong>
\n<\/span>The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC)<\/span><\/a> balances the needs of consumers and utilities; ensures safe and reliable utility service at reasonable rates; protects the public interest; educates consumers to make independent and informed utility choices; furthers economic development; and fosters new technologies and competitive markets in an environmentally sound manner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Alumna Kathryn L. Zerfuss \u201903 was appointed as a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission\u2019s (PUC) five-member panel. A Political Science major while at Etown, Zerfuss was nominated by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, and approved by the Pennsylvania Senate following unanimous recommendations by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee. Zerfuss, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":13094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339],"tags":[197,1350,293,1593,1592],"class_list":["post-13089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-political-science","tag-public-utility-commission","tag-puc","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13093,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions\/13093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}