4988 Annemessex Road
Crisfield, MD 21817
(410) 651-2110
Executive Director, Somerset County Maritime and Industrial Committee of Somerset County Board of County Commissioners, 1976-78. Mayor, City of Crisfield, 1978-82. Member, Economic Development Board, Somerset County, 1981- (chair, 1990-92). Member, Governor's Commission on Baltimore City Automobile-Insurance Rate Reduction, 1995; Chesapeake Bay Commission, 1995- (vice-chair, 2002-); Task Force to Examine Liability Insurance on Rental Vehicles, 1996; Governor's Task Force on Eastern Shore Economic Development, 1999-2001. Co-Chair, Task Force on Resource-Based Industry in Maryland, 2000-02. Member, Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, 2001-. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, February 7, 1941. Attended Crisfield High School; Baltimore Institute. Project Director, Somerset County Community Action Agency, 1966-76. Partner and chair, Landmark Insurance, Inc., 1979-. Board of Directors, Lower Shore Sheltered Workshop, 1971-78 (president, 1976-77); J. Millard Tawes Foundation, 1980-; United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore, 1986- (campaign chair, Somerset County, 1989; vice-president for Somerset County, 1990). Chair, Committee to Build Somerset County Public Golf Course, 1989-93. Member, Lower Eastern Shore Mayors' Association, 1978-; Crisfield Area Chamber of Commerce (president, 1975); Salisbury State University Foundation, 1986-; Tangier Sound Music Festival. Member, Delmarva Water Transport Committee, 1976-82 (vice-president, 1977-80); Delmarva Industrial Developers Association, 1977-80 (vice-president, 1978-79). Married; two children.
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