SMUD CEO Arlen Orchard to step down next August

Arlen Orchard, the CEO of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said he will retire next August, in his 30th year with the nation’s sixth-largest community-owned electric utility.

Orchard started with SMUD as a staff attorney in 1990, rising to assistant general counsel in 1998 and general counsel in 2001. He was named CEO in 2014 after the utility did a nationwide search.

“It is bittersweet for me,” Orchard said in an interview. “I always said when I got this position, that it would…

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