Chair Kemerait is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and serves on NARUC’s Critical Infrastructure Committee, Water Committee, and International Committee. She is an active member of the American Water Works Association and the NARUC-NASEO Comprehensive Electricity Planning Initiative. Additionally, she is a member of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Chair Kemerait is a former Chair of the City of Raleigh Board of Adjustment and a member of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is active in a variety of civic and community organizations.

Chair Kemerait lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and she has three sons.

Prior to joining the Utilities Commission, Commissioner Duffley was an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Division of the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. Until her appointment as a Commissioner, Ms. Duffley was a Senior Staff Attorney with the Utilities Commission and was co-chair of the Staff Subcommittee on Electricity of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). Commissioner Duffley currently serves as Chair of the NARUC Committee on Electricity; Co-Chair of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission; Chair of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition; and a member of the NARUC Board of Directors, the Department of Energy (DOE)-NARUC Nuclear Energy Partnership and the NARUC-National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative. She is a Board Certified Specialist in Utilities Law and serves on the NC Utilities Law Specialization Committee.

Commissioner Duffley enjoys art, travel and reading. She and her husband live in Raleigh and have two children.

Hughes is the author of numerous reports, guides, and articles on environmental finance and environmental policy analysis subjects. He has worked with a range of state and national organizations that focus on utility and environmental issues. He is an active member of Council of Infrastructure Finance Authorities (CIFA) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Hughes was the director of the Environmental Finance Center at the School of Government.

His research and teaching interests include service pricing, economic regulation, and public finance. He was named Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Term Lecturer for 2012 - 2014. Prior to joining the university, Hughes worked as a finance specialist for RTI International where he managed utility finance and governance projects throughout Central Europe and Africa including a yearlong position as an infrastructure finance advisor to the Polish government. Hughes also worked briefly as a utility director for a small rural community in North Carolina. He earned a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Duke University.

He has practiced law since 1984 with several law firms, including Dickstein Shapiro & Morin in Washington, D.C., as well as Faison, Brown, Fletcher & Brough in Durham, North Carolina. He established a practice known as McKissick & McKissick in 1990, where he specialized in Civil Litigation. He has represented Fortune 500 corporations, as well as small businesses and many individuals during the course of his career.

He is a member of the following committees through the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC): Consumers and the Public Interest, Electricity, Critical Infrastructure, International Relations and Energy Resources and the Environment. He serves as Chair of NARUC’s Consumers & The Public Interest Committee. He is also Co-Chair of NARUC’s-NASEO’s Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative. He previously served as President of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) which is composed of Commissioners from 11 Southeastern States and Puerto Rico. Commissioner McKissick has moderated panels at conferences sponsored by NARUC, SEARUC, as well as the New Mexico State University Center for Public Utilities, where he is a member of their Advisory Council.

Commissioner Brawley is an accounting graduate of UNC Charlotte. He began his career doing NC Rate Filings with a natural gas utility. After using mainframe computers to automate parts of the process, Commissioner Brawley began a career in technology with a computer time sharing firm, two manufacturers, and later two local telephone operating companies bringing internet connectivity and wide area network services into the Unifour area of NC. In 2004, Mr. Brawley made a career transition into commercial real estate specializing in infill assembly and lots for builders.

Commissioner Brawley is a native of North Carolina. Three of his four adult children live in NC, one resides abroad with her husband.

Prior to his NC Senate service, Senator Tucker served as Weddington City Council’s Mayor Pro-Tem from 1994-1996 and as a Union County Commissioner from 1996-2000. He served as a founding Board Member of American Bank, a local community bank located in Monroe, NC. He and his wife Diane have two children and six grandchildren. Tommy Tucker was born and raised in Pitt County, North Carolina and proudly calls Union County home.

Senator Tucker recently served on the NC Rules Review Commission from 2020-2021 and the NC Board of Elections from 2021-2023.

He counts his service in the United States Navy and time at NC State University as his proudest educational moments.