The York Water Company announced the election of Cynthia A. Dotzel as its new board chair during the May 3rd board reorganization meeting. Dotzel succeeds George W. Hodges, who served as chair since 2010. She is the first female chair in York Water’s 205-year history. Dotzel served on York Water’s board of directors from 2009 to 2015 and was reappointed to the board in 2019. She is a shareholder in York-based Dotzel & Company Inc. Certified Public Accountants, and has more than 40 years of professional experience in the accounting, tax and business advisory sectors. Dotzel currently sits on the board of directors of Codorus Valley Bancorp Inc., and PeoplesBank, a Codorus Company, where she chairs the audit committee. She previously served as a board member and audit committee chair of Waypoint Financial Corp., Waypoint Bank, York Financial Corp., and York Federal Savings & Loan.