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Beebe names former aide to PSC Thursday, Oct 11, 2007 Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Beebe on Wednesday named his former chief of staff in the attorney general's office to a vacancy on the state Public Service Commission. Colette Honorable of Little Rock replaces former commissioner Sandra Hochstetter, who resigned during the summer. Beebe also named Ken Ferguson of Pine Bluff to replace Honorable as director of the Arkansas Workforce Investment Board. Beebe appointed Honorable, 37, to head the Workforce Investment Board in January after he took office. She previously worked for five years at the state attorney general's office, where she began as an assistant attorney general and later served as Beebe's chief of staff. Honorable also has worked as a staff attorney at the Center for Arkansas Legal Services and as an assistant public defender in Jefferson County. Former state Supreme Court Justice David Newbern will remain as a special member of the PSC to consider Southwestern Electrical Power Co.'s application to build a coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County, according to the governor's office. Beebe appointed Newbern to hear the case in August after Hochstetter announced she was resigning from the commission to take a job with the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation, which is negotiating for partial ownership of the proposed SWEPCO plant. Ferguson, 56, has been director of human resources for the city of Pine Bluff since 1982. A Pine Bluff native, he was appointed by then-Gov. Bill Clinton to the Southeast Arkansas Community College Board of Directors. Former Gov. Mike Huckabee appointed Ferguson to the state Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission in 1999. |
