Department Secretaries/169

PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

The head of each department, except for Education, is the Secretary Appointed by the Governor
(subject to Senate confirmation), the Secretary serves at the Governor's pleasure and is a member of the
Governor's cabinet. Each Secretary carries out the Governor's policies regarding the department. The
Secretary is responsible for the department's planning, operation, and budget; promulgation of rules and
regulations; and appointment of required advisory boards. The State Department of Education is headed
by the State Board of Education. The Board appoints to a four-year term the State Superintendent of
Schools who directs the Department and executes policy and enforces regulations adopted by the Board.

DEPARTMENT SECRETARY BIOGRAPHIES

CHARLES L. BENTON, JR., Secretary of Budget and Fiscal Planning, 1987—. Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, May 20,1916. University of Maryland, B.A. (business and public
administration), 1938; M.A. (economics), 1940. Certified Public Accountant, 1940.
Professor of Accounting, University of Maryland, 1940-43. Comptroller, University of
Maryland, 1943-46. Director of Finance and Business, University of Maryland, 1946-56.
Budget Director, City of Baltimore, 1956-65. Director, Finance Department, City of
Baltimore, 1965-86. Fiscal Advisor to the Governor, 1987. Member, Commission on State
and County Finance, 1962-65. Past President and Founder, Baltimore City Foundation. Past
President, Lexington Market; Baltimore Yacht Basin. Past Trustee, Loan and Guaranty
Programs of the City of Baltimore. Past Chairman, Municipal Employees Credit Union;
Maryland Credit Union Insurance Corporation. Past Director, Baltimore Economic
Development Corporation. Office address: Goldstein Treasury Building, 60 Calvert St., 4th
floor, Annapolis, MD 21401.

TORREY C. BROWN, Secretary of Natural Resources, 1983—. Born in Chicago,
Illinois, February 28,1937. Attended Chicago public schools; Wheaton College, AB., 1957;
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, M.D., 1961. Physician. Served with the
U.S. Public Health Service, 1963-65. Member, Alpha Omega Alpha; The Johns Hopkins
Medical Society; American Heart Association; Southern Salt, Water and Kidney Club;
American Federation for Clinical Research; American Society of Nephrology; American
Board of Internal Medicine. Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Contributor to
many medical journals. Member of the House of Delegates, 1971-83. Office address: Tawes
State Office Building, Annapolis, MD 21401.

WAYNE A. CAWLEY, JR., Secretary of Agriculture, 1979—. Born in Denton, Maryland,
October 4, 1923. Washington College, B.A. (economics), 1948; attended the University of
Maryland School of Law. Served in the 82nd Airborne Division's 508th Parachute Infantry
Regiment in World War II, with combat service in the European Theater. Farmer for over
thirty years, currendy operating with sons a grain farm on the Eastern Shore. Former
vice-president, Denton National Bank, and director of the bank's Farm Department. Past
president of Rotary; former vice-president, Caroline County Farm Bureau. Named Caroline
County's "Outstanding Farmer" in 1974. Former member, Emergency Management
Advisory Council. Chairman, Governor's Task Force to Streamline State Government.
Member, Governor's Council on the Environment. Member, Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
Commission; Board of Regents of the University of Maryland. Past President, Southern
Association State Departments of Agriculture. Current President and past Secretary-Treasurer,
Southern U.S. Trade Association. Office address: 50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis,
MD 21401.