PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 14, 2020
Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday that her chief legal adviser is stepping down and her administration’s top environmental regulator will take over the position later this month. Derek Langhauser has served as Mills’ chief legal counsel since the Democrat took office in January 2019. Langhauser will be replaced by Jerry Reid, the commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, who previously worked for 24 years in the Maine Attorney General’s Office. Deputy DEP Commissioner Melanie Loyzim will fill Reid’s position on an interim basis until a new commissioner is nominated.