BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. John Bel Edwards has temporarily appointed a former state lawmaker to a vacancy on Louisiana’s utility regulatory agency.
Damon Baldone, of Houma, will serve on the five-member Public Service Commission until a special election fills the seat. Baldone was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House for a decade from 2001 until 2012. He is a lawyer and businessman.
Baldone will take over the seat vacated in May by Scott Angelle, who took a job leading the federal agency that regulates offshore oil and gas drilling.
The governor hasn’t yet set a special election date to fill the remaining portion of the term that ends on Dec. 31, 2018. The District 2 PSC seat represents all or part of 13 parishes across the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas.
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