# N. Wesley Hunt N. Wesley Hunt is an Administrative Law Judge at the [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]]. He was the Presiding Officer in both Entergy Arkansas dockets ingested this session — the [[psc/docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-001-U]] base rate case and [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-008-TF]] (the GAJA Rider) — and his orders shape both the seal architecture and the procedural schedule of the latter. ## Role and affiliations As an APSC ALJ, Hunt issues procedural orders under delegated authority from the Commission, including procedural schedules, interim protective orders, and final orders that become Commission orders if not modified within 30 days. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[Order No. 4 Suspending Entergy's Rates]] — Order No. 4 in Docket 26-001-U (Doc. 93, 2026-03-20); suspended Entergy Arkansas's proposed rates under Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-407(a). - [[Order No. 2 Interim Protective Order]] — Order No. 2 in Docket 26-008-TF (Doc. 4, 2026-02-11); the 14-page interim protective order granting EAL's 22-category protection request with three meaningful conditions: rejected the auto-import of Confidential / HSPI designations from other dockets (Paragraph T), denied EAL's request to make breach an automatic injunction without bond, and explicitly cited "transparency concerns and findings from Order No. 6 in Docket 25-047-U" directing EAL to minimize unnecessary redactions. - [[Order No. 3 Hearing Set for April 28]] — Order No. 3 in Docket 26-008-TF (Doc. 40, 2026-03-16); set the initial evidentiary-hearing date for 2026-04-28. - [[Order No. 4 Hearing Rescheduled to April 29]] — Order No. 4 in Docket 26-008-TF (Doc. 54, 2026-04-07); resolved a Staff–EAL procedural-deadline dispute, rescheduled the hearing to 2026-04-29, and ordered supplemental briefing on what triggers the GAJA Rider statutory timeframes. ## Notes Hunt's procedural rulings in Docket 26-008-TF show a consistent pattern: he grants utility requests subject to conditions that preserve the public-interest hooks — minimizing redactions, allowing third-party challenges to confidentiality designations, refusing to extend orders entered in other dockets into this one.