PSEG Counsel Shakeup As Lon Bouknight, Jr. Retires

PSEG announced today that Lon Bouknight, Jr. executive vice president and general counsel, will be retiring in the third quarter of 2014. Tamara Linde, currently vice president of regulatory, will be promoted to executive vice president and general counsel upon Bouknight’s retirement. Bouknight had been a partner at Steptoe and Johnson before joining PSEG and prior to that had been executive vice president and general counsel at Edison International.

Linde joined the PSEG legal department in 1990. She was appointed vice president-regulatory in 2006 and has led the company’s federal and state regulatory functions as well as managed corporate, environmental and labor/employment practices within the company.

PSEG also announced that Courtney McCormick has been named vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary. Since joining PSEG in 2008, McCormick has held several roles, most recently as corporate secretary and general corporate counsel. McCormick had worked at the law firms of King & Spalding LLP as well as Pillsbury Winthrop LLP before joining PSEG.