A little over a year after joining the Maryland Insurance Administration, Karen Stakem Hornig was promoted to deputy insurance commissioner.

Karen Stakem Hornig

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler announced the promotion for Stakem Hornig, who joined the department in June 2008 as associate deputy commissioner.

In her new role with the MIA, she will serve as Tyler’s designee for quasi-judicial  hearings, head the agency’s administrative unit and lead a variety of special projects, according to the department.

Tyler said in the year Stakem Hornig has been with the agency, “she has successfully overseen the move of the entire agency to its new home within budget, and internalized and streamlined the review of civil cases presented for assertions of absence of good faith by insurers, among other challenges.”

“We are pleased to have her as part of our executive team and recognize her hard work to help Maryland citizens with this promotion,” Tyler said in a statement.

Prior to joining the MIA, Stakem Hornig served in the Baltimore City Law Department as chief legal counsel for the city’s police department and prior to that, as chief solicitor in the labor, employment and personnel section.

Before joining the city in March 2005, the Maryland native was with Brown & Sheehan, LLP where her practice consisted of general civil litigation, with an emphasis on employment law, commercial litigation, and corporate transactions.

Stakem Hornig began her legal career in the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, representing a number of state agencies and is also a former vice president at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland.