Society of Senates Past
Roster

ROSALIE SILBER ABRAMS
Democrat, District 11, 42.

Member of Senate, 1970-84. Majority Floor Leader, 1978-82. Member, Budget and Taxation Committee, 1971-82. Chair, Finance Committee, 1983-84.

Member, House of Delegates, 1967-70.

Chair, Democratic State Central Committee of Maryland, 1978-. Chair, Humane Practices Commission, 1973-. Member, Commission to Study Implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1973-78. Member, Human Resources and Urban Affairs Committee, Southern Legislative Conference, Council of State Governments. Member, National Democratic Committee, 1979-. State-Federal Assembly Committee on Human Resources, National Conference of State Legislatures, 1977-. Past President, Maryland Order of Women Legislators. Received numerous distinguished service awards and citations.

Born in Baltimore. Attended Sinai Hospital School of Nursing; Columbia University; The Johns Hopkins University, B.S., 1963, M.A., Political Science, 1969. Served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps.

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