DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

SECRETARIES

FORMER SECRETARIES

Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2014-15; Smart Growth Subcabinet, 2014-15. Chair, Maryland Building Rehabilitation Code Advisory Council, 2014-15; Commission on Crossroads Development, 2014-15; Interagency Food Desert Advisory Committee, 2014-15. Member, Maryland Affordable Housing Trust, 2014-15; Interagency Committee on Aging Services, 2014-15; Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Board, 2014-15; State Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council, 2014-15; Interagency Disabilities Board, 2014-15; Maryland State Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council, 2014-15; Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, 2014-15; Financial Education and Capability Commission, 2014-15; Maryland Green Building Council, 2014-15; Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, 2014-15; Maryland Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 2014-15; Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2014-15; State Coordinating Committee for Human Services Transportation, 2014-15; Maryland Integrated Map Executive Committee, 2014-15; Interdepartmental Advisory Committee for Minority Affairs, 2014-15; Council on Open Data, 2014-15; Rural Maryland Council, 2014-15; Governor's Commission on Small Business, 2014-15; State Center Executive Committee, 2014-15; Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission, 2014-15 (co-chair, neighborhood stabilization & homeownership work group, 2014-15).

Member, Governor's Commission on Housing Policy, 2003-04; Climate Change Commission, 2014.

Director, Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Montgomery County, 2015-.

Born in High Point, North Carolina, April 1, 1953. Winston-Salem State University, B.A. (business administration), 1975; Howard University, M.B.A., 1994; Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Vice-President for Community Lending, Maryland National Bank, 1977-94 and Signet Bank, 1994-97. Deputy Executive Director & Corporate Treasurer, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, 1998-2003. Director, Baltimore Office, Enterprise Community Partners, 2003-07. Member, Associated Black Charities; Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers; Maryland Center for Community Economic Development; Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (community development advisory committee, community investment council); Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc.; Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore; Urban Financial Services Coalition. Married; one child.

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