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HARRISBURG, PA, May 6, 2025 – Stevens & Lee announced today that Gladys Brown Dutrieuille has been appointed to the Board of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Appointed by Pennsylvania Senator Jay Costa, Jr., Ms. Dutrieuille joins a nine-member board charged with promoting uniformity in state laws by drafting and proposing uniform acts to state legislatures to create consistent legal standards across states.
A national authority in the public utility industry, Ms. Dutrieuille is a former Commissioner and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PAPUC) and for more than 30 years has helped to shape the public utility landscape in the Commonwealth and across the country. Ms. Dutrieuille is the past President of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners (MACRUC). She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), where she chaired the NARUC Critical Infrastructure Committee, served on the Electricity Committee and was a member of the NARUC Telecommunications Committee, where she sponsored and secured adoption for a resolution urging the FCC to retain its $2.3 billion federal budget for broadband deployment across the country.
A two-term PAPUC Commissioner, Ms. Dutrieuille began her tenure at the PAPUC in 2013 when she was appointed by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. She was first appointed Chairman of the Commission in 2015 by Gov. Corbett. Gov. Tom Wolf also nominated her for a second term in 2018 and reappointed her as Chairman in 2019, placing her as the longest-serving female and African American Chairman in the Commission’s history.
Prior to her career at the PAPUC, Ms. Dutrieuille served the Pennsylvania Senate for 22 years. As a former Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Democratic Leader, she worked on major utility issues considered by the General Assembly.
Ms. Dutrieuille earned her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and her B.A. University of Pittsburgh. She served as a law clerk for the late Hon. Paul A. Simmons, Judge for the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
