Member, State Prosecutor Selection and Disabilities Commission, 2016-.
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, 2010-15; Lead Poisoning Prevention Study Group, 2011; Maryland Foreclosure Task Force, 2011-12; Mortgage Settlement Funds Work Group, 2012. Chair, Work Group on Lead Liability Protection for Rental Property, 2012.
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, national law school honor society; 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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