Virgin Islands Public Services Commission

PRESS RELEASE – November 11, 2006
For more information contact:
Sandra L. Setorie
Assistant Executive Director
(340) 778-6010

PUBLIC SERVICES COMMISSION APPOINTS NEW GENERAL COUNSEL

ST. CROIX – The Public Services Commission is pleased to announce that Tanisha Bailey-Roka, Esq., former District Legal Counsel for the Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs, has joined the PSC as General Counsel effective November 6, 2006.

Before working with the PSC and the DLCA, Attorney Bailey-Roka served as law clerk to the former Presiding Judge of the Virgin Islands Superior Court, the Honorable Maria M. Cabret.  She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law where she received the prestigious Joseph Bernstein Prize for excellence in legal writing.  Attorney Bailey-Roka also served a two-year commitment to the Corporation for National Service’s AmeriCorps program -- as a teacher through "Teach for America" in inner-city Baltimore, Maryland.

Attorney Bailey-Roka brings a wealth of knowledge on issues regarding consumer and administrative law in the Virgin Islands. She also serves in a number of volunteer and leadership capacities both locally and nationally, including Chair of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Committee for the Young Lawyer Division (YLD) of the American Bar Association, the YLD Liaison to the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee of the American Bar Association, a Member of the Virgin Islands Bar Association’s Legislation and the Law Reform Committee, and a Board Member for St. Joseph High School in St. Croix for which she is an alumna.

Attorney Bailey-Roka is based in both the St. Croix and St. Thomas offices.

 Sunny Isle Professional Building, Suite 8
P. O. Box 7360, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI 00823-7360
Tel. (340) 778-6010 Fax: (340) 778-0302
 Barbel Plaza, No. 8 Estate Ross
P. O. Box 40, St. Thomas, VI 00804-0040
Tel. (340) 776-1291 Fax: (340) 774-4971
 The Battery (Tuesday & Thursday)
Cruz Bay, St. John, VI
Tel. 776-1391