The Gaming Commission will soon be under entirely new management. With the agency in the midst of a search for a new executive director, the Governor’s Office announced on Feb. 20 that Chairwoman Cathy Judd-Stein would retire in March when her five-year term is up.
Judd-Stein, a veteran state government lawyer whom then-Gov. Charlie Baker tabbed in January 2019 to take the helm of an agency that faced a slate of complicated challenges, will retire from public service effective March 21, and the administration is starting a search for her replacement, Gov. Maura T. Healey’s office said.
The Gaming Commission has five members: one person appointed by the governor (Judd-Stein), one person with experience in criminal investigations and law enforcement appointed by the attorney general (Commissioner Eileen O’Brien), one person with experience in corporate finance and securities appointed by the treasurer (Commissioner Nakisha Skinner), and two people jointly appointed by majority vote of the governor, AG and treasurer (Commissioners Brad Hill and Jordan Maynard). The governor designates the chair of the commission.
