Tenure

Member of the House of Delegates June 25, 2002 to January 8, 2003. Elected to the House of Delegates, 2006. Member of the House since 2007.

Current Assignments

2013- Deputy Majority Whip

2007- Environmental Matters Committee

2007- Motor Vehicles and Transportation Subcommittee of the Environmental Matters Committee

2012- Housing and Real Property Subcommittee of the Environmental Matters Committee

2011- Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space/Agricultural Land Preservation

Past House Service

Environment Subcommittee of the Environmental Matters Committee , 2009-2011; Land Use and Ethics Subcommittee of the Environmental Matters Committee , 2007-2010; Local Government and Bi-County Agencies Subcommittee of the Environmental Matters Committee , 2007-2009; Ground Rent Workgroup of the Environmental Matters Committee , 2007; Ways and Means Committee , 2002-2003; Finance Resources Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee , 2002-2003.

Public Service

Maryland Thermal Renewable Energy Credit Task Force, 2013-; Financial Education and Capability Commission, 2012-; Task Force on the Membership and Operation of the Baltimore County Board of Education, 2011; Co-Chair, Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State, 2008-2010; Board of Trustees, Maryland Environmental Trust, 2008-.

Memberships

Chair, Social Action Committee, Temple Oheb Shalom , 2000-2005; Chair, Baltimore County Democratic Central Committee , 2001-2002; Board of Directors, Hillel of Greater Baltimore , 2000-2002; Treasurer, Liberty Road Community Council , 1999-2002; Vice Chair, Baltimore County Democratic Central Committee , 1998-2001; President, Liberty Road Community Council , 1996-1998; President, Grassroots Recycling, Inc. , 1992-1998; Baltimore County Democratic Central Committee , 1996-; Leadership Class of 1995, Greater Baltimore Committee ; United Way of Central Maryland ; Jewish Volunteer Connection ; Maryland Chapter, American Jewish Congress ; Board of Directors, National Association of Service and Conservation Corps ; Liberty-Randallstown Coalition ; Baltimore Jewish Council .

Biographical Information

Born, Baltimore, Maryland, September 19, 1958; Attended Harvard College, B.A., Government, cum laude, 1981; Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, M.P.A., Public Affairs, 1985; Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1985 (Stone Scholar, 1981-82); Attorney, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, 1985-92; Co-Founder, President, and Executive Director, Civic Works; Author, Fire in the Wind (2010); Married, Two children.