Society of Senates Past
Roster

PATRICIA R. SHER
Democrat, District 18.

Member of Senate, 1991-94. Member, Finance Committee; Special Joint Committee on the Medical Assistance Program; Special Joint Committee on Energy Pricing; Special Joint Committee on Legislative Data Systems.

Member, House of Delegates, 1979-90. Deputy Majority Whip, 1987-89; Deputy Majority Leader, 1989-90. Member, Interdepartmental Committee on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits; Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Chair, National Legislative Task Force on Fire Gas Toxicity, 1983-85. Vice-Chair, Task Force to Study Deaths Resulting from Building Fires, 1985-88.

Founder, Friends of RAP (Regional Addiction Prevention), 1971. Member, Committee to Repeal Blue Laws, 1976. Democratic Precinct Chair, 1966-78. Member, Maryland Drug Abuse Council, 1972-78. Hornbook Award, Montgomery County Education Association, 1984; Betty Tyler Public Affairs Award, Planned Parenthood of Maryland, 1988; Distinguished Service Award, Maryland State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration, 1988. Ann London Scott Memorial Award, Maryland NOW, 1989. .

Born in Washington, D.C., May 14, 1931. Greenbelt High School; Montgomery Community College; University of Maryland, College of Human Ecology, B.S., 1983.

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