DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

SECRETARIES

FORMER SECRETARIES

Coastal Resource and Environmental Planner, 1974-80, and Chief of Coastal Resource Planning, 1980-85, Planning Department, Baltimore City. Environment and Development Liaison, Baltimore Mayor's Office, 1985-87.

Chair, Maryland's Coastal Resources Advisory Committee, 1983-84. Member, Task Force on Chesapeake Bay Ferries, 1987-88. Chesapeake Bay Coordinator, Governor's Office, 1987-93. Chair, Governor's Council on Chesapeake Bay, 1987-93; Member, Governor's Advisory Committee on Maritime Archeology, 1988-92; Governor's Commission on Growth in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1989-91; Executive Agency Recycling Coordinating Council, 1990-92. Chair, Principals' Staff Committee, Chesapeake Executive Council, 1991-92, 1992-93.

Member, Governor's Executive Council, 1993-94; Governor's Subcabinet for Energy Management, 1993-94; Governor's International Cabinet, 1993-94. Chair, Asbestos Oversight Committee, 1993-94. Member, Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission, 1993-94; State Council on Cancer Control, 1993-94. Board of Trustees, Chesapeake Bay Trust, 1993-94. Member, Lead Paint Poisoning Commission, 1993-94; Northeast Ozone Transport Commission, 1993-94; Governor's Pesticide Council, 1993-94; Scenic and Wild Rivers Review Board, 1993-94; State Soil Conservation Committee, 1993-94; U.S. 301 South Corridor Transportation Study Task Force, 1994; Wetlands Restoration Steering Committee, 1998. Former member, Board of Directors, World Trade Center Institute.

Director, Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management, Baltimore County, 2001-09. Member, Advisory Committee on the Management and Protection of the State's Water Resources, 2002-04. Director, Office of Sustainability, Baltimore County, 2009-.

Born in Wilson, North Carolina, July 25, 1946. Rhode Island School of Design, B.A. (fine arts), 1969, B.L.A. (landscape architecture), 1970. Board member, Baltimore Harbor Endowment, 1985-90. Advisor and board member, Waterfront Center, Washington, DC, 1982-. Vestry member, St. Mary's Episcopal Church.

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