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State Agencies Human Resources/205
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Kalman R. Hettleman, Secretary
Bill B. Benton, Deputy Secretary
Luther W. Starnes, Executive Assistant
Vacancy, Assistant Secretary for Administration
Geraldine Aronin, Assistant Secretary for Program Planning and Evaluation
Charles G. Tildon, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Community Programs Administration
Joel J. Rabin, Assistant Attorney General, Counsel to the Department of Human Resources
1100 N. Eutaw Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-5528
The Department of Human Resources was created in 1970 as the Department of Employment and
Social Services by Chapter 96, Acts of 1970. The Department adopted its present name in 1975 (Chap-
ter 382, Acts of 1975).
The Department of Human Resources consists of the following component agencies: the Employ-
ment Security Administration, the Social Services Administration, the Income Maintenance Adminis-
tration, and the Community Programs Administration.
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
ADMINISTRATION
Frank 0. Heintz, Executive Director
Henry P. Hammann, Assistant Executive Director
1100 N. Eutaw Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-5600
The Employment Security Administration ad-
ministers the Unemployment Insurance Program,
the Employment Service, and the Work Incentive
Program for Maryland. The Agency is headed by
an Executive Director appointed by the Secretary
of Human Resources and serves at his pleasure.
Originally established by Chapter 314, Acts of
1937, the Administration adopted its present
name by Chapter 96, Acts of 1970 (Code 1957,
Art. 95A, and Art. 41, sec. 205F).
The programs of the Employment Security Ad-
ministration must be administered in accordance
with the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, the So-
cial Security Act, and regulations promulgated by
the U. S. Departments of Labor and Health and
Human Services. All the administrative costs of
the Unemployment Insurance and Employment
Service programs and 90 percent of the cost of
the Work Incentive Program are financed by the
federal government.
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ADVISORY COUNCIL
Chairperson: Harold G. Johnson, 1983
Representing the Public: Homer E. Favor, 1981;
one vacancy.
Representing the Employer: William K. Weaver,
1981; Edward J. McNeal, 1983; Samuel W.
Christine III, 1985.
Representing the Employee: Thomas M. Bradley,
1981; Albert J. Mattes, 1981; John G. Lesnick,
1985.
The Secretary of Human Resources appoints a
State Advisory Council, consisting of an equal
number of representatives from the public, the
employer, and the employee. The Council aids the
Executive Director in formulating policies and
discusses with him problems that arise in the ad-
ministration of the law to ensure impartial solu-
tions of such problems (Code 1957, Art. 95A,
sec. 12).
BOARD OF APPEALS
Chairperson: John J. Kent, 1981
Henry G. Spector, 1983; Hazel A. Warnick, 1985.
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