LIPA trustees choose Carrie Meek Gallagher as new chief executive officer
"She knows her way around local government, state government, and everything in between and she is a proven problem solver," said Englebright, a former state assemblyman who attended Gallagher's Gold Award ceremony when she was a teen in the Girl Scouts. "That’s what LIPA needs now: Someone who knows how things work and how to get things done."