Member, City Council, Mount Rainier, 1983-87. Member, Economic Development Advisory Committee, Prince George's County, 1985-92; Board of Education, Prince George's County, 1996-2002. Assistant State's Attorney, Prince George's County, 1998- (economic crimes unit, 2001-). Member, Police Advisory Board, Mount Rainier, 2001-; Governor's Commission on Housing Policy, 2003-04 (community revitalization subcommittee); Task Force to Study Identity Theft, 2005-07. Co-Chair, Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force, 2006-09. Member, Maryland Home-Ownership Preservation Task Force, 2007; Truancy Court Work Group, 2007-08. Chair, Task Force on the Establishment of Vocational and Technical Education High School Academies in Prince George's County, 2007-09. Member, Commission to Study the Title Insurance Industry in Maryland, 2008-10; Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program Board, 2010-; Lead Poisoning Prevention Study Group, 2011-.
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, March 19, 1947. Regents Scholar, University of Nebraska, 1965-67. University of Texas, B.A. (government), 1969. Phi Beta Kappa. Teaching fellowship, Graduate School of Government, University of Texas, 1970. University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1997 (Order of Coif; Editor, Maryland Law Review). Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1997. Attorney. Managing editor, Atlanta Cooperative News Project, 1973-76. Research director, Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger, 1975-76. Managing editor, In These Times, 1976-78. Editor & researcher, Exploratory Project for Economic Alternatives, National Center for Economic Alternatives, 1978-79. Project director, The Youth Project, Community Jobs Clearinghouse, 1979-81. Membership & communications director, Rural America, 1981-83. Vice-president & senior writer, The Kamber Group, 1983-86. Director, Corporate Communications, ULLICO, Inc., 1986-94. Doyle Niemann Communications, 1994-2001. Board of Directors, Maryland Citizen Action Coalition, 1982-94. President, Freeze Voter National Education Project, 1986-90. Member, Prince George's County Democratic Central Committee, 1986-90. Board of Directors and Chair, Community Advisory Board, Leland Memorial Hospital, 1990-93. Board of Directors, Prince George's Pool. Consumer Legislator of the Year, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, 2008.
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