Gov. John Kasich has appointed Public Utilities Commission of Ohio member Andre Porter to serve as director of the Ohio Department of Commerce – filling a vacancy created last month when the department's former director, David Goodman, was named Development Services Agency director, The Columbus Dispatch and a press release from the governor's office report. Porter, whom Gov. Kasich appointed to the PUCO in 2011, will begin his new position on April 22.
PUCO member to head up commerce department, leaving vacancy on the PUCO