Middlesex Water General Counsel Jay L. Kooper Elected Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Public Utility Law Sectio...
May 25 2017 - 12:22PM
Middlesex Water Company (NASDAQ:MSEX), a provider of water,
wastewater and related utility services, is pleased to announce
that its Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Jay L.
Kooper, has been elected as Chair of the New Jersey State Bar
Association’s Public Utility Law Section for the section’s
2017-2018 programming year. The Public Utility Law Section, New
Jersey’s premier legal organization for New Jersey’s public
utilities attorney community, hosts monthly meetings and special
programming throughout the year bringing together practitioners
from both the private sector and state agencies including the New
Jersey Board of Public Utilities and the New Jersey Division of
Rate Counsel.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
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With his election, Mr. Kooper joins a long list of
New Jersey’s outstanding public utility law practitioners past and
present who have previously served as the Public Utility Law
Section Chair, including two with ties to Middlesex Water Company –
current Director Walter G. Reinhard and past General Counsel
Kenneth J. Quinn. “I am deeply honored and humbled that the
membership of the Public Utility Law Section has entrusted me with
this great responsibility and I look forward to working with the
membership to develop programming for the 2017-2018 year that will
be useful and appealing to both the Public Utility Law Section
membership and the larger legal community of New Jersey," said
Kooper.
Jay L. Kooper was appointed Vice President, General
Counsel & Secretary of Middlesex Water Company in March 2014,
and currently serves as the Secretary of the National Association
of Water Companies’ New Jersey Chapter and on multiple committees
for the National Association of Water Companies and the New Jersey
Utilities Association. Mr. Kooper also serves on the Board of
Trustees of Temple B’Nai Abraham in Livingston, New Jersey, where
he resides with his wife Jessica and sons Jordan and Ethan.
In 2016, Mr. Kooper was honored as a finalist for the New York
Stock Exchange Corporate Governance and Leadership Awards’
Distinguished General Counsel of the Year and the NJBIZ General
Counsel of the Year in the Public Company Category.
About Middlesex Water CompanyMiddlesex Water
Company, organized in 1897, provides regulated and unregulated
water and wastewater utility services through various subsidiary
companies. For additional information about Middlesex Water Company
visit www.middlesexwater.com or call (732)
634-1500.
Media Contact:
Bernadette M. Sohler, 732-638-7549
Vice President - Corporate Affairs
bsohler@middlesexwater.com
www.middlesexwater.com
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