The Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is an American utility company that supplies electric power to the city of Washington,D.C.,and to surrounding communities in Maryland. It is owned by Exelon.
David A. Catania is an American politician and lawyer from Washington,D.C. He was formerly an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia,which he gave up to pursue an unsuccessful run in the 2014 mayoral election.
Exelon Corporation is a public utility headquartered in Chicago,and incorporated in Pennsylvania. Exelon is the largest electric parent company in the United States by revenue and is the largest regulated electric utility in the United States with approximately 10 million customers. The company is ranked 99th on the Fortune 500.
Carol Schwartz is an American politician and Perennial candidate from Washington,D.C.,who served as a Republican at-large member on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2009. A five-time perennial candidate for mayor,she is the only Republican nominee since the restoration of home rule to garner more than 30 percent of the vote. She announced her fifth campaign for mayor on June 9,2014 finishing behind Muriel Bowser and David Catania. In 2015,she was appointed to the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability by Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Philip Heath Mendelson is an American politician from Washington,D.C. He is currently Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia,elected by the Council on June 13,2012,following the resignation of Kwame R. Brown. He was elected to serve the remainder of Brown's term in a citywide special election on November 6,2012,and re-elected to a full term in 2014 and 2018.
Vincent Bernard Orange,Sr. is a former American politician from Washington,D.C.,and former president of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce. An attorney and a certified public accountant,Orange represented Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007,and was an at-large member from 2011 to 2016. He lost the June 2016 Democratic primary election to Robert White. Although his term was not due to end until January 2,2017,Orange resigned from the council effective August 15,2016,in the wake of conflict of interest charges over his new employment at the Chamber of Commerce.
James McMillan Nielson Graham was a Scottish-born American politician and a member of the Council of the District of Columbia. As a Democrat he represented Ward 1 in Washington,D.C. from 1999 until 2015.
John K. Evans III is an American lawyer and politician who served on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 2020 before resigning due to numerous ethics violations. Evans served as the chairman of the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) until its ethics committee found he violated conflict of interest rules. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Ward 2 of Washington,D.C. from May 1991 to January 2020,making him the D.C. Council's longest-serving lawmaker. He ran for mayor in 1998 and 2014,but lost in the Democratic primary both times.
Mary M. Cheh is an American Democratic politician from Washington,D.C. From 2007 to 2023,she served on the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 3.
Muriel Elizabeth Bowser is an American politician who has been serving as the 8th and current mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously represented the 4th ward as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt,and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
John James Capozzi,Jr. is an American politician who served as Shadow U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia between 1995 and 1997 and was a member of the District of Columbia Democratic State Committee for over 20 years,most recently as chair of the Environmental Caucus.
David Grosso is an American attorney and politician. He is a former at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia who lives in Brookland. A native Washingtonian,he graduated from Earlham College and Georgetown University Law Center. Grosso is a member of the D.C. Bar. Following the completion of his second term on the D.C. Council,he joined the law firm Arent Fox as a lobbyist.
Anita Bonds is an American Democratic politician in Washington,D.C. She is an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia. She served as the Chair of the District of Columbia Democratic Party from 2006 to 2018. She worked as an executive at Fort Myer Construction,a District contractor.
Charles Allen is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Allen has served on the Council of the District of Columbia for Ward 6 since January 2,2015. Allen initially won office in the 2014 general election,and was re-elected in 2018.
Elissa Silverman is an American politician and reporter from Washington,D.C.,the United States capital. She served as an independent at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2015 to 2023. Before 2015,she was a journalist at The Washington Post and Washington City Paper covering D.C. politics,and a policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. She was re-elected in November 2018 for a four-year term,but lost her re-election bid in 2022.
Brandon Tristan Todd is a lobbyist for Washington Gas and a former American politician who represented Ward 4 on the Council of the District of Columbia. Todd previously worked in the Council office of Muriel Bowser and in various campaign positions during her successful campaign for Mayor of the District of Columbia. Todd won a special election in May 2015,succeeding Muriel Bowser,who was elected as mayor. After serving one full term on the council,Todd lost the 2020 Democratic primary to Janeese Lewis George.
LaRuby Zinea May is an American politician and African American lawyer who formerly represented Ward 8 on the Council of the District of Columbia in Washington,D.C. She won the Ward 8 special election on May 10,2015,succeeding Marion Barry,who died in office on November 23,2014. May,who was sworn into office on May 14,2015,served out the remainder of Barry's term,which ended on December 31,2016. During her first council term,she was active on the issues of crime and violence,marijuana policy,assisted suicide,and improvements to Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. She criticized the city's emergency medical services department,opposed the creation of a public electrical utility,and applauded the construction of a sports arena in her ward. She was one of the few council members to support the mayor during the FreshPAC scandal,and although she asked Congress to end its school voucher program she also supported a political action committee which supports an expanded voucher and charter school program in the District. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Brooke Pinto is an American attorney and politician. In June 2020,she won the special election to succeed Jack Evans on the Council of the District of Columbia,representing Ward 2. She is the youngest council member in the District's history and the first woman to represent Ward 2.
In 2020,a general election for Council of the District of Columbia was held on November 3,and a special election was held on June 27. Elections were held in four of the districts and one at-large. The Democratic Party retained its control of the city council and the council became majority female for the first time since the 1998 election.
On November 8,2022,a general election was held for the Council of the District of Columbia. Elections were held in four ward districts as well as for chairperson of the council and two at-large seats. Democrats remained in control of the council,electing six out of the seven positions that were on the ballot. Independent Kenyan McDuffin,formerly the Democratic councilperson for Ward 5,was also elected.
