Executive Leadership
Kirk J. Emge,
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, PHI
Kirk J. Emge is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI), an investor-owned regional energy holding company whose electric distribution utilities serve about 1.9 million customers in Washington, D.C., suburban Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.
Before coming to Pepco, Mr. Emge served as General Counsel to the Public Service Commission of Maryland (1983-1986), the Commission’s Chief Hearing Examiner (1978-1983) and a Commission Hearing Examiner (1974-1978).
Mr. Emge joined Pepco in 1986 as Deputy General Counsel and advanced through several executive and legal capacities. He was elected Vice President - Regulatory Law in April 1994. In this position within the Legal Services Group, he was responsible for representing and coordinating the Company’s activities before regulatory agencies, principally the Maryland and District of Columbia Public Service Commissions and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
He became Vice President - Legal Services for Pepco responsible for the management of Pepco’s Legal Services group in April 1998. Mr. Emge became Vice President - Legal Services, Pepco Holdings, Inc. in August 2002 when the merger of Potomac Electric Power Company and Conectiv to form Pepco Holdings, Inc. was completed.
Mr. Emge holds a B.A. degree from The Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. degree from the University Of Maryland School Of Law.
He is currently a member of the Edison Electric Institute’s Legal Committee, where he is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Electric Distribution and Retail Marketing. Mr. Emge is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, Maryland Bar Association, Delaware Bar Association and the American Gas Association Legal Committee
