Governor Mike Beebe made two high-level appointments today naming Teresa Marks as director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and Paul Suskie to the Arkansas Public Service Commission.

Marks, 49, has spent the past four years as the Deputy Attorney General for Public Protection in the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office. She replaces Marcus Devine who has headed the agency under former Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Suskie, 35, has served as the North Little Rock City Attorney since 2000. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General in 2006.  He replaces PSC commissioner Randy Bynum whose term had expired.

UPDATE:  In making his PSC appointment, Beebe designated that Suskie would serve as chair of the three-member commission, according to gubernatorial spokesman Matt DeCample.