District 5: Prince George's County

Joseph S. Casula, Chairperson; Donna C.
Aldridge; Joseph L. Gibson, Jr.; Francis X. Jahn,
Sr.; Theresa A. Nolan.

E. Allen Shepherd, District Public Defender
District 6: Montgomery County

DeLawrence Beard, Chairperson; Elsa R.
Kaufmann; Paul F. Kernp; Theodore A. Miller;
one vacancy,

J. Theodore Wieseman, District Public Defender
District 7: Anne Arundel County

Bruce C. Williams, Chairperson; Judith Billage;
William A. Franch; Mettie M. Smith; Edwin A.
Lechowicz.

Stephen E. Harris, District Public Defender
District 8: Baltimore County

Gerard W. Wittstadt, Chairperson; Charles E.
Foos III; Michael J. Lambros; C. Victor
McFarland; Raymond E. Pryor.

Thomas J. Saunders, District Public Defender
District 9: Harford County

Edwin H. W. Harlan, Jr., Chairperson; Judith C.
H. Cline; Stanley Getz; John S. Karas; Michael E.
Leaf.

Henry C. Engel, Jr., District Public Defender
District 10: Howard and Carroll Counties

Diane Gail Schulte, Chairperson; Charles 0.
Fisher, Jr.; Nathan Greene; Marker J. Lovell;
William R. MacDonald.

Carol A. Robertson, District Public Defender
District 11: Frederick and Washington Counties

Frederick C. Wright III, Chairperson; Edward L.
Kuczynski; Lewis C. Metzner; Glenn C. Michel;
Robert S. Rothenhoefer.

William R. Leckemby, Jr., District Public
Defender

District 12: Allegany and Garrett Counties

Paul J. Stakem, Chairperson; Thomas B. Dabney,
Jr.; Donald W. Mason; William H. Rudd;
William Walsh.

Michael Robert Burkey, District Public Defender

Each District Advisory Board for the Public
Defender system studies and observes the opera-
tion of the district public defender office. The
Board advises the Public Defender and the district
public defender with respect to panels of attor-
neys, fees, and other matters pertaining to the op-
eration of the district public defender office and
the Public Defender system.

For each district of the District Court, there is a
District Advisory Board for the Public Defender
System. Each Board is composed of five members.
One member is the judge of the Circuit Court or
the District Court in the district. Four members
must be active attorneys-at-law; they are ap-
pointed by the Governor for three-year terms.
Annually, the Governor designates the chairper-
son of each board (Code 1957, Art. 27A, sec. 10).

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Chairperson: Frank 0. Heintz, 1988

Haskell N. Arnold, 1987; Claude M. Ligon, 1987;
Lilo K. Schifter, 1989; Linda M. Thomas, 1990;
William A. Badger, 1991.

Bryan G. Moorhouse, General Counsel
Ronald E. Hawkins, Executive Secretary
Kenneth G. Hurwitz, Executive Director

American Building
231 E. Baltimore St.
Baltimore 21202 Telephone: 333-6000
D.C. area 565-0451
TTY for Deaf: Bait. area 333-1827

The Public Service Commission was established
in 1910 (Chapter 180, Acts of 1910). It has juris-
diction over common carriers engaged in the pub-
lic transportation of passengers or freight within
the State of Maryland, except those carriers of
passengers that come within the jurisdiction of the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commis-
sion (Chapter 613, Acts of 1959). The Public Ser-
vice Commission also has jurisdiction over all
taxicabs operating in Baltimore City, Baltimore
County, Cumberland, and Hagerstown. The Com-
mission licenses taxicab drivers in Baltimore City.
It also has assumed the rate-setting function for-
merly exercised by the Board of Examiners of
Maryland Pilots (Chapter 726, Acts of 1984).

The Commission exercises jurisdiction over all
gas, electric, telephone, telegraph, water, sewage