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    Commissioner - Fourth District

    COUNTIES: Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Somerset

    Donald K. Anderson

    Headshot of Commissioner Donald K. Anderson

    Commissioner Don Anderson of Meyersdale, Somerset County, represents the Fourth District of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, encompassing Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Somerset counties and was appointed in October 2018. He was elected as Board President in July 2026.

    Commissioner Anderson is a 1972 graduate of Meyersdale Area High School and attended Frostburg University in Maryland and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

    Commissioner Anderson retired from the Bedford-Somerset Mental Health and Mental Retardation Program after more than 34 years of service. During his career, he worked at both the Somerset County workshop and peer station and held numerous positions, including activity aide, production manager, job-placement specialist and case worker.

    Commissioner Anderson worked in commercial aquaculture from 1989 to 1992 as an assistant manager at Green Spring Trout Farm in Newville and was involved in all aspects of rearing and marketing trout. He has been involved with numerous conservation organizations for more than 50 years. Commissioner Anderson served as Treasurer of the Salisbury-Elklick Hunting Club and has been the Club’s Cooperative Nurseries Manager since 1992. He was one of the 13 charter members of the Casselman River Watershed Association in 1989, served briefly as President and has been the Cooperative Trout Nursery Manager since 2000. Commissioner Anderson has also served the Somerset County Sportsmen’s League as its delegate to division and state meetings. He currently helps with the annual banquet and serves as the league’s grant coordinator.

    Commissioner Anderson was instrumental in starting indoor recirculating cooperative catfish nurseries in the Berlin, Rockwood, Meyersdale and Shanksville school districts in Somerset County. He has also coordinated construction projects with six schools for fish habitat structures in the Quemahoning Reservoir and Somerset Lake. Commissioner Anderson has also served his community on the Meyersdale Municipal Authority as both Vice-Chairman and Chairman since being appointed in 2014.

    Commissioner Anderson has a long history of involvement with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. He served as a Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer for more than 48 years. He was first appointed District Four Commissioner in March 1995, and then as Boating at-large Commissioner in June 2001 until June 2009 when his term expired.

    Commissioner Anderson lives in Meyersdale with his wife Mary Ellen.