Susan Wefald (born June 30, 1947) is a former
North Dakota Republican Party politician. She served as a
North Dakota Public Service Commissioner The North Dakota Public Service Commission is a constitutional agency that maintains various degrees of statutory authority over utilities, telecommunications, railroads, grain elevators, pipeline safety, and other functions in North Dakota.
Establ ...
from 1993 until her retirement in 2009.
[(7 December 2007)]
Susan Wefald won't seek new term
''Bismarck Tribune''
Biography
Susan Wefald was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and received her bachelor's degree from the
University of Michigan and her
Master of Public Administration
The Master of Public Administration (M.P.Adm., M.P.A., or MPA) is a specialized higher professional post graduate degree in public administration, similar/ equivalent to the Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the issues of ...
degree from the
University of North Dakota. She is a licensed social worker, and a former credit counselor. She was a member of the
Bismarck Public Schools board from 1989 to 1993, and she has been on the Veterans Memorial Library Board of Trustees since 2001. She was appointed to the Public Service Commission in 1993 by Governor
Ed Schafer to complete the term by
Dale V. Sandstrom, who resigned. She is the first woman to serve on the state's Public Service Commission. In 2002, Wefald was re-elected to serve a six-year term with the Commission. Wefald did not seek re-election in 2008. At the time of her retirement, she was serving as the President of the Commission. She is the wife of
Robert O. Wefald, and they have three grown children; Sarah, Kathryn and Tom.
References
1947 births
Living people
Women in North Dakota politics
North Dakota Public Service Commissioners
North Dakota Republicans
University of North Dakota alumni
2008 United States presidential electors
University of Michigan alumni
21st-century American women politicians
21st-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
20th-century American politicians
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