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Gov. Mark Gordon announced three new appointees Wednesday, including Mary Throne, whom Gordon defeated in the 2018 gubernatorial election.

Gordon, a Republican who took office last month, named Maj. Gen. Luke Reiner the director of the Wyoming Department of Transportation and filled two partisan vacancies on the Wyoming Public Service Commission. Mike Robinson will fill the Republican vacancy and Throne, the Democrats’ most recent nominee for governor, will fill that party’s vacancy.

“Yes, Mary and I were opponents in the recent gubernatorial race, but Mary is a professional, capable person with a strong background in the minerals industries,” Gordon said in a press release. “I believe she will serve well in this Democrat seat.”

Throne, an attorney, spent 10 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives, including four as minority floor leader.

Robinson is currently senior assistant attorney general in the Water and Natural Resources Division of the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, where he has worked for 12 years.

“Mike is a thorough and talented attorney who is well suited to deal with the complexity of (Public Service Commission) cases,” Gordon said in the release.