RURAL MARYLAND COUNCIL

c/o Dept. of Agriculture
Wayne A. Cawley, Jr. Building
50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401 - 8960
(410) 841-5772; fax: (410) 841-5987
e-mail: orlandva@mda.state.md.us
web: www.rural.state.md.us

Cows, Anne Arundel County Fair, Crownsville, Maryland, September 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Elected by Council members: Robert D. Agee; Don William Bradley; Edmund R. (Ned) Cueman; Rodney B. Glotfelty; William B. Kilby; Wm. Daniel Mayer; Francis J. (Jack) Russell; one vacancy.

Appointed by Senate President (nonvoting): Richard F. Colburn; Thomas M. Middleton; Alex X. Mooney.

Appointed by House Speaker (nonvoting): Richard B. Weldon, Jr.; John F. Wood, Jr.; one vacancy.

Appointed by Senate President & House Speaker (nonvoting): one vacancy

Representatives:
Eastern Shore Resource, Conservation & Development Council: David Wilson

Forvm for Rural Maryland Foundation: Robert D. Agee

Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies, Inc.: David Jordan

Maryland Association of Counties: Robert M. Hutcheson

Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators: John Venditta

Maryland Downtown Development Association: Stanley T. Ruchlewicz

Maryland Farm Bureau: one vacancy

Maryland Municipal League: Linda N. Bambary; Carroll A. Jones.

Maryland Rural Health Association: Thomas McLaughlin

Mid-Shore Regional Council: W. Scott Warner

Southern Maryland Resource, Conservation & Development Council: Jeremy West

Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore: Michael P. Pennington

Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland: Wayne E. Clark

Tri-County Council for Western Maryland: Leanne D. Mazer

Upper Shore Regional Council: John A. Dillman III

Western Maryland Resource, Conservation & Development Council: Timothy W. Hann

Federal agencies: Marlene B. Elliott, State Director, Maryland & Delaware Rural Development, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

For-profit organizations: Charles Ross

Nonprofit organizations: R. Kevin Brooks

Ex officio: Martin J. O'Malley, Governor; S. Patrick McMillan, designee of Secretary of Agriculture; vacancy, designee of Secretary of Business & Economic Development; Rebecca Love, designee of Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene; vacancy, designee of Secretary of Housing & Community Development; Emily H. Wilson, designee of Secretary of Natural Resources; Bonnie Braun, Ph.D., designee of Director, Maryland Cooperative Extension.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
David M. Jenkins, Executive Director (410) 841-5772
e-mail: jenkindm@mda.state.md.us

MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION & RURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE BOARD
Ex officio:Roger L. Richardson, Secretary of Agriculture; David W. Edgerley, Secretary of Business & Economic Development; Raymond A. Skinner, Secretary of Housing & Community Development; John M. Colmers, Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene; John R. Griffin, Secretary of Natural Resources; Charles Ross, Chair, Rural Maryland Council.

COMMUNICATIONS
Vanessa A. Orlando, Manager (410) 841-5772
e-mail: orlandva@mda.state.md.us

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