John Hanger

John Hanger
Secretary of Planning and Policy of Pennsylvania
In office
January 20, 2015 – February 26, 2016
GovernorTom Wolf
Preceded byJennifer Branstetter
Succeeded bySarah Galbally
Secretary of Environmental Protection of Pennsylvania
In office
September 2008 – January 2011
GovernorEd Rendell
Preceded byKathleen McGinty
Succeeded byMichael Krancer
Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
In office
1993 – June 1998
GovernorBob Casey Sr.
Succeeded byAaron Wilson Jr.
Personal details
Born (1957-06-30) June 30, 1957 (age 67)
Nairobi, Kenya
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materDuke University
University of Pennsylvania

John Hanger (born 1957) is the former Pennsylvania Secretary of Planning and Policy, serving on the executive staff of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.

Hanger has served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a position he held between September 2008 and January 2011 under then-Governor Ed Rendell. He is also a former Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission[1] and Of Counsel at law firm Eckert Seamans. He was a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2014, before withdrawing from the primary.[2][3] He is one of two Pennsylvanians who have served both as a Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and as Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. (Clifford Jones served as the Chair of the Public Utility Commission and Secretary of the Department of Environmental Resources, the predecessor of DEP.)

  1. ^ "John Hanger - Secretary of Environmental Protection". Governor's Cabinet Officials.
  2. ^ "Search Results John Hanger".
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