Member, Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 1994; Governor's Commission on Welfare Policy, 1994; Governor's Task Force to Reform the State Personnel Management System, 1995-96; Study Commission on Lobbyist Ethics, 1999-2000. Co-Chair, Task Force to Study Modernization of Credit Union Law, 1999-2001. Acting Chair, Environmental Restoration and Development Task Force, 2003. Member, Fine Arts Education Advisory Panel, State Department of Education, 2003; Attainment Plan (federal air quality standards) Task Force, Department of the Environment, 2003-; Maryland Historical Trust, 2004-; Transit Funding Study Steering Committee, 2006-07.
Born in Quinter, Kansas, December 22, 1947. Independence Junior College, A.A., 1967; Wichita State University, B.A.E. (arts education), 1970; The Johns Hopkins University, M.S./A.B.S. (science), 1987. Administrator and instructor, Baltimore City Public Schools, 1972-78. Adjunct instructor of continuing education, Catonsville Community College, 1978-79. Community service planner and grants analyst, Commission on Aging and Retirement Education, Baltimore City, 1979-85 (director of pre-retirement education, 1985-88). Campaign manager and state director for U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, 1988-92. Associate for Federal Relations, The Johns Hopkins University, 1992-. Elected delegate to Democratic Party National Convention, 1980. Member, Democratic State Central Committee, 1986-94. Former member, Board of Directors, New Democratic Club (member 1976-87); Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1976-79; Penn North Charles Planning Council, 1980; Ready at Five, 1995-; Action in Maturity, 1995-; Marion House, 1996-. Honorary Board member, Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc., 2003. Board of Directors, Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, 2005-; Baltimore-Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center, 2005; Union Memorial Hospital, 2005. Advisory Board, North East Development Alliance (NEDA). Honorary Board member, AIDSWALK Maryland, 2005; Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation. Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 1998. Certificate of Appreciation, Maryland Municipal League, 1999, 2003, 2004. Dorothy Beatty Memorial Award, Women's Law Center, 2001. Legislator Recognition Award, Maryland Association of Counties, 2003. Legislator of the Year, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 2004. Certificate of Appreciation, Maryland Municipal League, 2005, 2006. Award, Progressive Maryland, 2006. Homeownership Advocate of the Year Award, Department of Housing & Community Development, 2006.
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