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Ms. Meiser graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance in 1990 and then obtained her Law Degree from the University of Baltimore in 1996. Ms. Meiser practiced law with the land use law firm of Fossett & Bruger, Chtd., and then with the law firm of Lacer, Sparling, Densford & Reynolds, P.C., and continued her focus on land use, zoning, contract and real estate transactional law. Since 2000, Ms. Meiser has owned and operated the Law Offices of Jacquelyn V. Meiser, P.C., a companion company of Aspect Title & Escrow. Ms. Meiser continues to practice in the areas of contracts, land use and real property law, including a busy commercial and residential transactional practice.

Ms. Meiser has served as in-house legal counsel to a water and waste water utility and in that capacity she has negotiated the terms and conditions of discharge permits,  consent decrees, and overflow penalties with state and federal environmental regulatory agencies. She has served as borrower’s counsel in public and private bond issues and has overseen the waste water reclamation facility upgrade processes to both BNR and ENR technologies. She has also negotiated the terms and conditions for a water and waste water privatization initiative with the U.S. Navy and has counseled the utility on all construction and inspection services contracts, and has managed the utility’s competitive procurement process.

She has extensive experience in the area of water and wastewater utilities, including regulatory, state and federal consent order negotiation, discharge permits, construction, contracts, public-private partnerships procurement, and rate setting and analysis.  Ms. Meiser also has extensive experience with legislation and policy drafting relating to all aspects of water and wastewater utility matters.