Member, Planning Board, Montgomery County, 1986-90; Commission for Child Care, Montgomery County. Member, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1986-94. Board of Directors, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, 2006 (chair, climate change steering committee, 2007-09). Chair, Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee, 2007 (member, 2006-11). Member, Greenhouse Gas and Carbon Mitigation Working Group, Climate Change Commission, 2007-16. Chair, Air Quality Control Advisory Council, Department of Environment, 2010- (member, 2003-).
Mayor, Garrett Park, 2000-02. Member, Citizens' Advisory Board, Silver Spring.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 29, 1951. Smith College, B.A. (american studies), 1973; Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., 1976. Founding member, Montgomery Women, 2000- (past president). Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2008. Chair, Transit Subcommittee, 2010-, Transportation Steering Committee, National Association of Counties (past vice-chair for transit). Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2016. Treasurer, County Elected Women of Maryland. Board of Directors, Montgomery Housing Partnership; Jewish Council on Aging; Habitat for Humanity; Strathmore Hall Foundation. Member, Montgomery Parks Foundation; Silver Spring Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Past president, Maryland Citizen Planners Association; Parent-Teacher Assocation, East Silver Spring Elementary School. Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2003, 2007, 2011 (Circle of Excellence). Phyllis Campbell Newsome Public Policy Leadership Award, Center for Nonprofit Advancement, 2014. Member, Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, Bethesda, Maryland. Married; three children, two grandchildren.
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