Whitney Snyder

Whitney Snyder focuses her legal practice at Hawke, McKeon & Sniscak LLP on administrative litigation in the public utility, pipeline safety, natural gas, electricity, municipal and private water and wastewater sectors, practicing predominantly before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the past ten years. Ms. Snyder has substantial experience in assisting: public utilities with utility regulatory compliance and administrative litigation including rate cases, service complaints, procurement planning, mergers and acquisitions, tariff interpretation and changes, comment proceedings regarding policy and regulation proposals. She works with pipeline operators, property developers, unregulated entities with questions of PUC oversight and compliance and municipalities with disputes with public utilities. She also practices in the areas of appellate litigation and argues appeals before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. Ms. Snyder is vice chair of the Administrative Law Section, a past chair of the Public Utility Law Section and is a member of the Commission on Women in the Profession of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She joined HMS in 2013 after graduating from Widener Commonwealth School of Law. Prior to working at HMS, Ms. Snyder interned at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She also interned as a Law Clerk in the PUC’s Law Bureau.