Public Utility Law Bench Bar Conference 2026 – Harrisburg

Judge DeVoe is an Administrative Law Judge with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in the Pittsburgh Office. Judge DeVoe joined the Office of Administrative Law Judge in January 2019. Prior to that, Judge DeVoe worked as an Attorney Examiner with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services’ Bureau of Hearings and Appeals. Judge DeVoe began her legal career as a Magistrate for the 6^th Magisterial Region in Virginia. She earned her B.A. with a dual major in History and Political Science from Washington and Lee University and her J.D. from William and Mary Law School.

Judge Guhl is an Administrative Law Judge with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in the Philadelphia Office.  Prior to that, Judge Guhl worked as an Appeals Referee with the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Board of Review.  Judge Guhl also was an associate with a regional Philadelphia law firm, practicing workers’ compensation.  Judge Guhl started as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board.  She earned her B.S. in Environmental Science from Susquehanna University and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

Ms. Bruce is a member of McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC’s Energy and Environmental Practice Groups and serves as Chair of the firm’s Hiring Committee. She has a broad-based regulatory and transactional energy practice, primarily focused on representing commercial, institutional, industrial, and municipal customers in electric and natural gas matters. She regularly advises clients on energy and natural gas supply options. Her practice also involves advising clients on matters involving renewable energy, including resource portfolio standard policy, renewable energy credit contracts as well as power purchase agreements for renewable energy supply. She has extensive experience before state regulatory agencies, legislatures, and appellate courts as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She also regularly participates in the PJM stakeholder process on behalf of clients and is the immediate past Chair of the PJM Members Committee. Ms. Bruce earned her A.B. from Duke University and her J.D. from College of William & Mary Law School. Susan is active in the Energy Bar Association, currently serving as Vice-Chair of the Electricity Committee, as well as the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Women in the Utility Profession or WinUP.

Kristina Montgomery is a seasoned professional in regulatory policy and government relations, currently serving as the Director of Regulatory Policy at Vistra Energy since November 2019. In this role, Kristina develops and implements strategies for state regulatory policy related to electricity and natural gas across multiple regions while actively collaborating with stakeholders to advance advocacy initiatives. Prior to Vistra, Kristina held managerial positions at Just Energy, where responsibilities included managing state relationships in the Northeast, and at Beltone, where oversight of business development was primary. Experience also includes roles at Talisman Energy USA, XTO Energy, and ConocoPhillips, encompassing government relations and environmental management. Kristina holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Economics from Cornell University and an MBA from Penn State University.

Sonny Popowsky served as the Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2012. He started his career at the Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) as an Assistant Consumer Advocate in 1979. He served as the President of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) from 1996 to 1998 and was previously Chairman of the NASUCA Electric Committee. He served on the Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) from 1997 to 2001 and the NERC Stakeholders Committee from 2001 to 2006. In 2010, Mr. Popowsky was appointed by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee and served as Vice Chair of that Committee from 2012 to 2016. Mr. Popowsky currently serves as Chair of the City of Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Advisory Board of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, the Boards of Directors of the Energy Coordinating Agency, the Sustainable Energy Fund, and Regional Housing Legal Services, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Consumer Advisory Council. In 1988, he briefed and argued the United States Supreme Court case of Duquesne Light Company v. Barasch, in which the Court upheld the position of the OCA that two Pennsylvania electric utilities had no constitutional right to charge consumers for the costs of four cancelled nuclear power plants. Mr. Popowsky graduated Cum Laude from Yale University and received his J.D. Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Between college and law school, Mr. Popowsky worked as a newspaper reporter for the Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Prior to joining the OCA, he was an Associate at the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz from 1977-1979.

Elizabeth Marx serves as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project (PULP), where leads PULP’s policy, litigation, training, and specialized projects in furtherance of its mission to secure just and equitable access to safe and affordable utility services for Pennsylvanians experiencing poverty. She currently serves as Chairperson of the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services’ LIHEAP Advisory Committee, the Department of Community and Economic Development’s Weatherization Assistance Program Policy Advisory Council, and the Department of Environmental Protection’s Climate Change Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the Public Utility Commission’s Consumer Advisory Council. She holds a BS, cum laude, in Political Science from Temple University, and JD, magna cum laude, from Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

Judge Rainey was appointed Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on September 16, 2010. He leads the Office of Administrative Law Judge, which includes administrative law judges, mediators, lawyers and support staff in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Judge Rainey has 43 years of experience in public utility law. Prior to his current position, he served as Administrative Law Judge and Office Manager in Philadelphia. In 2008 he was presented the Golden Gavel Award by the Office of Administrative Law Judge for his decision, which was adopted by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in the Verizon/MCI merger case. In his 35 years at the PUC, he has also served as Executive Deputy Chief Counsel in the Law Bureau and Legal Counsel to a Commissioner. In the Philadelphia City Solicitor’s Office, Judge Rainey served as Chief Assistant City Solicitor and Counsel to the Philadelphia Gas Commission. He has also served as an Assistant Consumer Advocate in the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate. Judge Rainey has presented on public utility law in Ghana, India and Pakistan, and to delegations from Russia, South Korea, El Salvador, Uruguay, Zambia and Armenia. He earned his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and his J.D. from Antioch University School of Law.

Mr. Screven presently serves as Chief Counsel in the Law Bureau of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. As the Commission’s senior legal official, David counsels the Commission in all appellate and original jurisdiction matters involving gas, electric, telephone, transportation, and water/wastewater utilities before state courts and federal courts and agencies.  As Chief Counsel, he manages the Commission’s Law Bureau, with additional responsibility for drafting policies, procedures, and regulations, developing Commission responses to Right-to-Know and Confidential Security Information requests, and supervision of contracted legal counsel in a variety of matters.  He joined the PUC Law Bureau in 1998 after graduating from Messiah College with a B.A. in political science and a J.D. from Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg.

Elizabeth Barnes has been Deputy Chief Counsel in the Law Bureau of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission since July 2022. She is primarily responsible for federal energy matters as well as regulatory review. Prior to her appointment, she served as an Administrative Law Judge in the Harrisburg office of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission from July 2010 – July 2022. From December 1998 – July 2010, she was Assistant Counsel in the Commission’s Law Bureau. Ms. Barnes holds a B.S. in Marketing/Pre-Law from Juniata College and a J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School.

Mr. Povilaitis is a Shareholder in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., where he focuses on administrative law matters before various state and federal courts and agencies in the areas of energy, water, transportation and telecommunications, as well as agreements for transactions involving energy production and services. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Povilaitis served as chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and successively served as assistant counsel, deputy chief counsel, and first deputy chief counsel, before assuming the position of chief counsel which he held for eight years. Mr. Povilaitis is a past chairperson of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Public Utility Law Section and past editor of the Section’s newsletter. Since 1990, he has been a course planner and speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s biannual Public Utility Law Conference, and is also a planner for the biannual PA PUC Bench Bar Conference. Mr. Povilaitis is a graduate of LaSalle University and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, several United States Federal District Courts, in addition to the several Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mr. Povilaitis is a member of the American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Dauphin County Bar Association and the Energy Bar Association. 

Judge Vero was appointed as an administrative law judge in January of 2011 and is assigned to the Commission’s Philadelphia office. Prior to becoming an ALJ, she served for four years as a Special Agent in the Legal Division of the Commission’s Office of Administrative Law Judge. She received her B.A. from Temple University, summa cum laude, and her J.D. from Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law.

Mr. Zambito is the Harrisburg Office Managing Partner of Cozen O’Connor, a 925-attorney, full-service law firm with offices in 33 cities on two continents. The firm is ranked among the top 100 law firms in the country. He is Chair of the firm’s Utility & Energy Group and concentrates his practice on water/wastewater, natural gas, electric, telecommunications, transportation, and large development project matters. He is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, Political Action Committee and Marketing Committee, and has served on the firm’s Management Committee and chaired the firm’s Shareholder Nominating Committee. Among other awards and recognitions, Mr. Zambito has been named to 2024 Power List for Law, Best Lawyers in America for 2024-25 and Energy & Environment Power 100 by City & State Pennsylvania in 2023. He received his B.A. from Grove City College, magna cum laude, and his J.D. from The Dickinson School of Law, where he was a member of the Dickinson Law Review and Appellate Moot Court Board. Following law school, he served three years as a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In addition to prosecuting courts-martial and acting as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, he instructed courses on military justice, the law of war, and government employee ethics. Following his military service, Mr. Zambito served as legal counsel to Glen Thomas, former Chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. His clients include American Water and its subsidiary Pennsylvania-American Water Company, Veolia Water Pennsylvania f/k/a SUEZ Water Pennsylvania, PJM Interconnection, National Association of Water Companies – PA Chapter, Amazon.com, Talen Energy, Cordia Energy, SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund North America, IFM Global Infrastructure Fund, Riverstone Holdings, Securus Technologies, SpaceX, Saracen Energy, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania/University of Pennsylvania Health System, The Westover Companies, and Perdue AgriBusiness.

Melanie Joy El Atieh serves as the Deputy Consumer Advocate at the Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) since April 2024. She served as a Senior Assistant Consumer Advocate between October 2023 and March 2024. Prior to joining the OCA, Mel served as Assistant Counsel at the Public Utility Commission (PUC), in the Law Bureau between 2021-2023, and in the Office of Special Assistants between 2017 and 2021. At the PUC, Mel successfully represented the agency in complex appellate cases before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Between 2005 – 2017, Mel obtained experience in the natural gas, electricity, water, and wastewater industries within the regulated utility and competitive market spaces, as follows: as in-house counsel at American Water, where she advised on complex rate, regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters to utility business units in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland (2015-2017); as the manager, rates & regulatory planning at UGI Utilities, Inc. (2014-2015), where she oversaw the preparation of base rate, purchased gas cost, default service, and DSIC rate filings; as in-house counsel at UGI Corporation, where she provided legal, business, and ethics counsel on complex matters to diverse business units (2010-2014); and, as an associate (2008-2010), summer associate (2007), and part-time law clerk (2005-2007) at Blank Rome LLP. In 2008, she graduated from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Before law school, between 2002 – 2005, Mel worked for the PUC as an executive policy analyst in the Office of the Honorable Glen R. Thomas. In 2002, she graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Economics, highest distinction. Mel served in the following leadership roles in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s (PBA’s) Public Utility Law Section from 2018 through 2024: Immediate Past Chair & Section Delegate to the PBA House of Delegates, Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and Young Lawyers’ Division Liaison.

Ms. Tran joined the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in 2015 as a Special Agent in the Office of Administrative Law Judge, where she served as a presiding officer, and reviewed and drafted ALJ decisions. Since 2017 she has been an Assistant Counsel in the Commission’s Law Bureau, representing the Commission in trial and appellate courts, and providing advice on a variety of legal issues. She currently serves as staff counsel assigned to the Commission’s Consumer Advisory Council and the Telecommunications Relay Service Advisory Board. Ms. Tran received her J.D. from the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law and holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Saint Joseph’s University.

Chairman Stephen M. DeFrank was nominated by Governor Wolf on September 20, 2022, and confirmed by the Senate on October 19, 2022. He was appointed as Chairman on August 30, 2023, by Governor Josh Shapiro. His term expires on April 1, 2025. Prior to joining the PaPUC, the Chairman was a principal in the government relations practice at Buchannan Ingersoll & Rooney.  He also spent 24 years in state government, primarily in the state Senate, serving in several roles with Senate leadership, including Chief of Staff for two members, Special Assistant for Policy to the Democratic Leader, and Democratic Executive Director of the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee.  As Committee Director, the Chairman developed policy initiatives impacting the utility sector, including the creation of the Distribution System Improvement Charge (DSIC), authorization of Transportation Network Companies, and modernizing the Public Utility Code relative to energy, water, wastewater and telecommunications. Chairman DeFrank resides in Harrisburg with his family.

Shelby currently serves as PPL Electric Utilities’ Senior Director of Government, Regulatory and External Affairs. In this role, Linton-Keddie leads PPL Electric’s advocacy strategy and relationships with key stakeholders.  A dynamic thinker, Shelby has provided innovative and effective strategy on a wide range of utility regulatory and legislative issues for almost two decades. Shelby came to PPL Electric from the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), where she served as Executive Director of State Regulatory Affairs and oversaw EEI’s national engagement and strategy on state regulatory issues before public utility commissions.  She also co-led EEI’s cross-functional state practice team, which focused on emerging industry policy trends on key topics.  Prior to her time with EEI, Linton-Keddie has held various regulatory and legal counsel positions, including serving as Manager of Regulatory Strategy at Duquesne Light Company and at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, where she was legal counsel to Commissioner Pamela Witmer.  She also has served in various advocate roles, both as an intern at the Office of Consumer Advocate and as an Assistant Small Business Advocate. In all these roles, Shelby has experience actively managing utility strategies and making policy decisions on a variety of issues. Ms. Linton-Keddie received her J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University, where she served as Managing Editor of the Penn State International Law Review. In addition, Ms. Linton-Keddie holds a B.S., cum laude, and a M.Ed. from Millersville University. 

Teri-Lee Rhoades is an Attorney/Mediator with the Office of Administrative Law Judge (“OALJ”). Before joining OALJ, she served as an Attorney 3 with the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Revenue. In her current post with the OALJ Ms. Rhoades focuses on mediation of cases under the PUC’s jurisdiction. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Tennessee. Since graduation and prior to serving the Commonwealth, Ms. Rhoades has served as: the Chairwoman of the Tennessee Commission on Indian Affairs; a registered lobbyist in Pennsylvania; a solo practitioner at Rhoades OLMS, LLC; Director of Development, Small Business Advisor, Project Director for tribal nations including the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians; a mediator for the Supreme Court of Oklahoma’s Early Settlement Program; a board member and general manager of a small water utility; and an arbitrator for Cherokee Nation Tribal Courts.

Rosemary Chiavetta was appointed Secretary of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on April 15, 2010. She retired after 35 years of service with the Commonwealth on April 18, 2025, and served as Secretary of the Commission for the past 15 years. Prior to her return to the Commission, Secretary Chiavetta was the sole proprietor of Chiavetta Consulting from 1999 to 2010, specializing in legal advice and government relations for clients in the areas of public utilities, labor, health care, education, financial investments, mergers and acquisitions, and the environment. Before entering private practice, Secretary Chiavetta served in the Commission between March of 1993 and April of 1999 as an Assistant Counsel in the Commission’s Law Bureau, as Counsel to former PUC Chairman John M. Quain from 1995 to 1997, and as the Commission’s Director of Legislative Affairs from 1997 to 1999. Secretary Chiavetta was instrumental in both the deregulation, passage, and implementation of the electric industry (the 1996 Customer Choice Act), and the telecommunications industry (the 1997 Federal Telecommunications Act), resulting in the creation of new area codes throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Prior to her first tour of duty with the Commission, Secretary Chiavetta served as a Legislative Assistant and Counsel in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Secretary Chiavetta is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1976 and holds her juris doctorate from the Dickinson School of Law in 1992 and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar since November of 1992.

Patrick M. Cicero, Esq., has dedicated his legal career to advocating for the rights of Pennsylvania’s consumers, particularly in the realm of public utilities. Patrick currently serves as Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project (PULP), a specialized legal aid office that provides advocacy, training, and legal representation on energy and utility matters affecting low-income Pennsylvanians. Patrick also worked at PULP from 2011-2020 initially as a staff attorney and ultimately as the Executive Director. From December 2021 through January 2025, Patrick served as Pennsylvania’s Consumer Advocate, a role for which he was confirmed by the Pennsylvania Senate. During his tenure, Patrick was known for his vigorous representation of consumers, challenging utility rate hikes and opposing the privatization of public water systems when it was not in the public’s best interest. His efforts included testifying before the state legislature for more robust utility protections and successfully contesting certain municipal water system sales in court. Patrick earned his Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2002 and subsequently served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Sylvia H. Rambo in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Following his clerkship, Patrick joined MidPenn Legal Services, where he led the Consumer Unit, focusing on litigating consumer and housing cases related to anti-predatory mortgage lending, consumer bankruptcy, and defending clients against unscrupulous debt collection practices. Patrick also served as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN) for slightly less than 2 years. Patrick has taught as an adjunct professor at Messiah University, his alma mater. He lives in Mechanicsburg with his wife, their two children, and his in-laws.

Glen Thomas is the former chairman of the Pennsylvania Utility Commission (PUC), where he oversaw the restructuring of Pennsylvania’s electricity, natural gas, and local telephone markets. Before his appointment to the PUC, Mr. Thomas served as deputy director of Governor Ridge’s Policy Office, where he advised the governor on energy and environmental issues. In addition, Mr. Thomas was appointed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve on the governor’s transition team for energy related issues in 2003. Mr. Thomas is also a former partner at the law firm of Blank Rome. Mr. Thomas currently serves as President of the PJM Power Providers Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to properly designed and well-functioning markets in the PJM region. Mr. Thomas has served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners; chairman of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Washington Action Committee; and a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Board, the National Regulatory Research Institute’s Board of Directors, the Keystone Center Energy Board, the Organization of MISO States Board of Directors, and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Committee on International Relations, Telecommunications and Critical Infrastructure. Mr. Thomas received his J.D. from Dickinson School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy/religion and political science from Colgate University. He attended the Governors Center of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard University. He was one of the 60 civilians chosen by the Secretary of Defense to participate in the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Civilian Orientation Conference. Mr. Thomas has been honored by the Philadelphia Business Journal and the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal as recipient of the “40 Under 40” Award. He is also a member of the Wilson High School Academic Hall of Fame.

Darryl Lawrence is the Acting Pennsylvania Consumer Advocate and has worked at the Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) since 2005. Mr. Lawrence’s current state practice for the OCA focuses on energy matters. Mr. Lawrence also leads the OCA’s efforts in participating in major energy cases that come before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that may have an impact on Pennsylvania ratepayers, including interstate natural gas pipeline and electric transmission rate cases, and various rulemakings as to matters of national importance on energy issues. In 2011, Mr. Lawrence was elected to a seat on the Planning Committee, which has since been reformed as the Reliability and Security Technical Committee (RSTC) of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Mr. Lawrence is the only voting member on the Reliability and Security Technical Committee solely representing small end-use customers for the entire NERC footprint, which encompasses the continental United States, five Canadian Provinces and a part of Mexico. In 2020, Mr. Lawrence was elected to the Member Representative Committee of NERC, representing small end-use customers. Mr. Lawrence received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in business administration from Lebanon Valley College, graduating Summa Cum Laude from both programs. Mr. Lawrence received his J.D. Cum Laude from the Widener University School of Law, where he served as the Business/External Managing Editor for the Widener Law Journal. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Lawrence had a successful career in the automotive industry as a Certified Master Auto Technician, Service Manager, and also provided consulting services to Chevrolet Motor Division on quality of service and customer satisfaction issues.

Mr. Tubbs is the the President and CEO of the Energy Association of Pennsylvania, where he spearheads the EAP’s initiatives to advocate for the energy industry and strengthen collaboration among policymakers, regulators and utility providers. EAP is a leader in energy policy, balancing economic growth, sustainability, reliability and customer affordability, including Chapter 14 protections for energy customers in Pennsylvania. Previously, he was Director of Regulatory Strategy for NiSource, Inc. where he led a team in developing and advancing regulatory initiatives to support NiSource’s corporate objectives by aligning regulatory efforts across the six states served by NiSource’s electric and gas affiliates. Prior to this role, Mr. Tubbs oversaw legislative and regulatory policy for Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania. Tubbs, an attorney, previously served as Senior Counsel for Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania where he represented Columbia in matters before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Prior to joining NiSource, Mr. Tubbs was an attorney in Post & Schell P.C. Energy Practice Group, where he represented gas and electric utilities clients in various state and federal regulatory and transactional matters before the Commission and the FERC. In addition, Mr. Tubbs spent nearly eight years with the Pennsylvania PUC where he advised the Commission on a variety of electric and gas matters and defended Commission orders before state and federal courts. Mr. Tubbs earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and his Juris Doctor form Widener University School of Law.

Nicole Luciano is Director of Policy for the Energy Association of PA, a trade association that represents and promotes the interests of regulated electric and natural gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania. Ms. Luciano represents utility interests before the PA PUC, Department of Human Services, Department of Environmental Protection, and the General Assembly. Ms. Luciano is EAP’s subject matter expert for utility consumer service issues and serves on DHS’s LIHEAP Advisory Committee. She completed the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Organization Management (IOM) program and earned her Certified Association Executive (CAE) in 2024.Ms. Luciano received her B.A. in Political Science from Gettysburg College and M.A. from Lehigh University. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Cleve J. Fredericksen Library in Camp Hill.