Diane Koken
M. Diane Koken is an American legal and regulatory consultant who serves as a court-appointed special advocate for children (CASA) in Pennsylvania. She is also a former Insurance Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, and currently serves on the boards of multiple organizations across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Biography Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Koken graduated from Penn Manor High School, was subsequently awarded a bachelor's degree from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude in 1972, and a Juris Doctor degree from the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University in 1975. She then began her insurance industry career with the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, ultimately working her way up to become vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Koken served as the Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1997 to 2007. She was appointed acting commissioner by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge in July 2007 and was then confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate as commissioner later that same year. During her decade-long tenure, in which she subsequently served under Pennsylvania governors Mark Schweiker and Ed Rendell, and became the second longest-serving insurance commissioner in the state's history (as of 2007), the agency