Office of Environmental Adjudication director to retire
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The Office of Environmental Adjudication will soon be looking for a new leader.
State officials announced Wednesday that Mary Davidsen — Indiana’s longtime chief environmental law judge and director of the OEA — plans to retire at the end of the year.
Davidsen was first appointed to the role in 2003 and has overseen the Office of Environmental Adjudication through a period where the agency resolved more than 2,300 cases.
“Judge Davidsen has had an incredible tenure dealing with often complex cases involving environmental concerns,” Gov. Eric Holcomb said in a news release. “She dedicated her career to this important work and it’s an honor to recognize her as a colleague.”
The Office of Environmental Adjudication serves as an independent source of resolution for Indiana Department of Environmental Management decisions that are disputed. The agency specifically deals in air, land and water law and the Excess Liability Trust Fund.
Davidsen said that serving in her role for the last 20 years has been the greatest honor of her legal professional life.
“The challenges of providing a fair, efficient forum to hear the first level of legal challenges to decisions made by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) could not have evolved as smoothly without the commitment of the parties to advocating their positions,” Davidsen said. “I am incredibly proud of the work being done by our state and will be forever grateful to those who continue to fulfill the needs of our communities by improving the environmental conditions for Hoosiers.”
State officials say they will begin the process to fill Davidsen’s role before the end of the year.