DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS & MILITARY FAMILIES

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[photo, Anthony C. Woods, Maryland Secretary of Veterans Affairs] ANTHONY C. WOODS
Secretary of Veterans & Military Families, 2024-25
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2023-24

Secretary of Veterans and Military Families since July 1, 2024. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, March 2, 2023 to June 30, 2024. Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, January 18 to March 2, 2023.

Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2023-25. Chair, Maryland Veterans Trust, 2023-25; Governor’s Warrior to Worker Council, 2023-25. Chair, Commission on Veterans and Military Families, 2024-25.

Member, Interagency Committee on Aging Services, 2023-25; Maryland Cybersecurity Coordinating Council, 2023-25; Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2023-25; State Coordinating Committee for Health and Human Services Transportation, 2023-25; Maryland Military Installation Council, 2023-25; Maryland Semiquincentennial Commission, 2023; Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, 2023-25; Maryland Commission on Suicide Prevention, 2023-25; Superintendent's [Secretary of State Police] Council of Advisors on Diversity and Inclusion, 2023; Maryland 250 Commission, 2023-25; Governor's Workforce Development Board, 2023-25. Member, Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances, 2024-25.

White House Fellow, 2011-12. Member, Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2014-17.

Staff Secretary to Governor of New York, 2008-09.

Born in Fairfield, California, July 20, 1980. Attended Vanden High School, Fairfield, California; U.S. Military Academy, West Point, B.S. (economics & american politics), 2003; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, M.P.P (public policy), 2008. Served in U.S. Army, 2003-08 (deployed to Iraq, 2003, 2005; bronze star); Major, Military Intelligence, U.S. Army Reserves, 2014-. Program Director, ServiceNation, 2009-11. Iowa Deputy Field Director, Obama for America, 2012. Senior Manager, Cisco, 2013-16. Consultant, 2016-17, and Project Leader, 2017-19, Boston Consulting Group. Business Director, Capital One, Tysons, Virginia, 2019. Fellow, 2019-20, Director and Head of Talent, 2020-22, and Executive Director, Quad Fellowship, 2021-23, Schmidt Futures (now Schmidt Sciences).

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