DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS & MILITARY FAMILIES

SECRETARIES

FORMER SECRETARIES

Secretary of Veterans and Military Families, February 17, 2026 to November 5, 2026. Acting Secretary of Veterans and Military Families, August 1, 2025 to February 17, 2026.

Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2025-26. Chair, Commission on Veterans and Military Families, 2025-26; Maryland Veterans Trust, 2025-26.

Member, Cyber Maryland Board, 2025-26; Maryland Cybersecurity Coordinating Council, 2025-26; State Coordinating Committee for Health and Human Services Transportation, 2025-26; Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2025-26; Maryland Military Installation Council, 2025-26; Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances, 2025-26; Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, 2025-26; Maryland Commission on Suicide Prevention, 2025-26; Maryland 250 Commission, 2025-26; Governor's Workforce Development Board, 2025-26; Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, 2026.

Member, Board of County Commissioners (Republican), Carroll County, representing District 5, December 4, 2018 to July 31, 2025 (vice-president, Dec. 13, 2018 to Jan. 4, 2021; president, Jan. 4, 2021 to Dec. 14, 2023). Resigned July 31, 2025.

Member, Planning and Zoning Commission, Carroll County, 2018-21; Commission on Aging and Disabilities, Carroll County, 2018-25; Board of Health, Carroll County, 2018-25.

Member, Baltimore Regional Transportation Board, 2021-23. Board of Directors, Baltimore Metropolitan Council, 2021-23. Board of Visitors, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical System, 2021-23.

President, Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation 2013-14. Member, Governor's Workforce Development Board, 2015-; Veterans Advisory Council, Carroll County, 2015-.

Born in New Jersey, 1963. Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, B.S. (education), 1986; Webster University, M.A. (human resource development), 1999; Industrial College of Armed Forces, National Defense University, M.S. (national resource strategy), 2010. Served in U.S. Army, 1983-2014 (retired colonel; staff action officer, national security agency, 2007-09; intelligence operations officer, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2010-11; garrison commander, Fort Meade, 2011-13). Principal and owner, ERA Advisors LLC (SDVOSB), 2015-. Senior advisor, cyber security, Bay Bank FSB, 2016-18. Executive Director, The BWI Business Partnership, Inc., 2018-. Adjunct professor, Anne Arundel Community College, 2014-. Member, Greater Baltimore Committee, 2021-. Board of Directors, Fort Meade Alliance Foundation; Maryland Association of Counties, 2023-. Married; two children.

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