HARRISBURG — A Cranberry Township woman has been picked for a three-member panel to review the procedures and business practices of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

Maureen Lally-Green, who is an associate general secretary for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, has been a state Superior Court judge and an adjunct professor at Duquesne University School of Law.

Her selection was announced Monday by Turnpike commission CEO Mark Compton.

The advisory committee will study the methods and practices of how the Turnpike does business, noting what works and what does not, according to a commission news release.

State officials first mentioned the creation of the advisory council on March 18, in response to a grand-jury indictment issued by the state attorney general.

Several former high-ranking Turnpike officials have been charged in the probe.

The charges relate to a system allegedly involving bribes and political contributions costing taxpayers millions of dollars, according to the grand jury report.

Vendors reportedly were told campaign contributions were directly linked to their ability to get work on the highway.

Among the eight people indicted by the grand jury in March were former state Sen. Robert Mellow; Joseph Brimmeier, the former Turnpike CEO; Mitchell Rubin, the former chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; and George Hatalowich, the former chief operating officer of the Turnpike commission. Among the charges against the four are bid-rigging and bribery.

Two others indicted by the grand jury were contractors and the last two indicted were Turnpike employees.

The other two committee members are John L. Gedid of Mechanicsburg, a retired law professor and director of the Law & Government Institute at Widener University School of Law’s Harrisburg Campus, and M.G. Patel of Harrisburg, a former construction company executive and retired chief engineer at the state Department of Transportation.

Committee members will serve for one year or until the task has been completed, according to the release from the Turnpike commission.

Those members will not be paid for their work but can be reimbursed for travel expenses.