HOUSE OF DELEGATES

FORMER DELEGATES

Member of House of Delegates, January 11, 1995 to January 8, 2003. Member, Commerce and Government Matters Committee, 1995-98 (transportation & motor vehicles subcommittee, 1995-97; transportation subcommittee, 1998; vice-chair, motor vehicles subcommittee, 1998); Special Committee on Rail Mergers, 1997; Appropriations Committee, 1999-2003 (capital budget subcommittee, 2002-03; education & economic development subcommittee, 2002-03; health & human resources subcommittee, 2001; public safety & administration subcommittee, 1999-2000; oversight committee on pensions, 1999-2003; oversight committee on program open space & agricultural land preservation, 1999-2003); Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 2001-03. House Vice-Chair, Joint Audit Committee, 2002-03 (member, 2001). Vice-Chair, Transportation Committee, Montgomery County Delegation. Vice-Chair, House Democratic Research Group, 1998-2003. Member, Women Legislators of Maryland, 1995-2003.

Born in Washington, DC, July 2, 1961. Attended Winston Churchill High School, Potomac; American University (Washington semester program), 1981; Vassar College, A.B. (political science), 1983; graduate study, University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Affairs. Consultant. Executive Director, Independent Action, 1989-91. Chief of Staff to U. S. Representative John Cox of Illinois, 1991-92. Lobbyist, Handgun Control, Inc. (now Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence), 1991, 1993. Vice-President, Strategic Message Design Group, 1999-. Executive Director, Carl M. Freeman Foundation, 2003-. Committee Chair, Task Force on Party Operations, Maryland Democratic Party (member, committee studying ballot measures). Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2004. Directed advanced women candidates' training seminar for Women's Campaign Research Fund, and Center for Political Leadership and Participation. Founding Board member, Faith and Politics Institute, 1991-99. National Board, Americans for Democratic Action, 1981-. Special events coordinator for U.S. Representative Michael D. Barnes (Senate campaign), 1986. Steering Committee, Voices Versus Violence, 1994. Chair, Career Development Committee, Vassar Club of Washington. Board member, American Jewish Committee, 1999-. Volunteer work on behalf of World Folk Music Association, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Multiple Sclerosis Society. Flemming Fellow, Center for Policy Alternatives, 1996. Leader of the Year, Greater Washington Board of Trade, 1996. Certificate of Appreciation, Maryland Municipal League, 1997, 1998. Darden Fellow, University of Virginia School of Business, 1999. Blaustein Fellow, American Jewish Committee, 2003. Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2003, 2005. Comay Fellow, American Jewish Committee, 2004-05. Member, Congregation Har Shalom. Married.

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