Society of Senates Past
Roster

Member of Senate, 1997-99. Member, Budget and Taxation Committee, 1997-99 (public safety, transportation, economic development and natural resources subcommittee); Joint Audit Committee, 1998-99; Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space and Agricultural Land Preservation, 1998-99.

Member of House of Delegates, 1991-97. Member, Ways and Means Committee, 1991-92; Appropriations Committee, 1992-97 (capital budget subcommittee; oversight committee on personnel; oversight committee on program open space & agricultural land preservation; chair, transportation & the environment subcommittee, 1995-97); Joint Transportation Financing Committee (Transportation 2000), 1994. House Vice-Chair, Joint Legislative Work Group on Community College Financing, 1994-95. Member, Special Joint Task Force on Transportation, 1995; Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space and Agricultural Land Preservation, 1995-97. House Chair, Joint Committee to Study Mandates on Local Government, 1995-97. Member, Special Joint Committee on Competitive Taxation and Economic Development, 1996-97. Chair, Special Committee on Rail Mergers, 1997. Chair, Harford County Delegation, 1992, 1995-97.

Citizen member, Board of Estimates, Harford County, 1978-82. Chair, Commission on Human Relations, 1988-89 (member, 1985-89). Member, Baltimore/Washington International Airport Advisory Committee, 1993. Co-Chair, Sound Barrier Review Panel, 1995-96. Member, Council on Management and Productivity, 1995-97; Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness, 1998; Aquaculture Advisory Committee, 1998-99; Chair, Maryland Comprehensive Transit Plan Transit Advisory Panel, 1998-99.

Born in Killeen, Texas, June 23, 1955. Attended Bel Air Senior High School; Frostburg State College, B.S., 1977; University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., 1979. Attorney. Member, Maryland State and Harford County Bar Associations. Member, Democratic Central Committee of Harford County, 1980-82, 1986-90 (chair, 1986-90). Board of Directors, American Red Cross, Northeastern District, 1984-89 (chair, 1986-89). President, Bel Air Jaycees, 1983. Named one of Ten Outstanding Young Marylanders by Maryland Jaycees, 1988. Married; one son.

Compiled from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives, February 11, 1999