Commission Chair
Raymond A. “Chip” Mason, Founder, Legg Mason, Inc.

Vice-Chair
U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes

Michael E. Busch, Speaker, Maryland House of Delegates
Atwood "Woody" Collins III, President and COO, M&T Bank Mid-Atlantic
T. Eloise Foster, Secretary, Maryland Department of Budget and Management
John R. Griffin, Secretary, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Richard E. Hall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Planning
Christian Johansson, Secretary, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President, Maryland Senate
J. Scott Plank, Executive Vice President, Under Armour, Inc.
Albert Small, President, Southern Engineering
Robert Stevens, Chairman, President and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Beverley Swaim-Staley, Secretary, Maryland Department of Transportation

ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Advisory Committee members are appointed by the Chair of the Commission.  For more information about the Advisory Committees, please see Star-Spangled 200: A National Bicentennial or contact us.  

Development and Sponsor Relations
Greg Barnhill, Brown Advisory
James Bond, Living Classrooms Foundation
Clinton Daly, Brown Advisory
Donald Fry, Greater Baltimore Committee
Willard Hackerman, Whiting Turner Contracting Company
Christian Johansson, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
Patrick Noonan, Conservation Fund

Resource Stewardship and Visitor Experience 
Robert Boone, Anacostia Watershed Society
Jeffrey Buchheit, Baltimore National Heritage Area
Wayne Clark, Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland
William Dudley
Ralph Eshelman, Eshelman and Associates
James Gardner, National Museum of American History
David Gildea, Gildea and Schmidt, LLC
Ross Kimmel, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Vince Leggett, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Rodney Little, Maryland Historical Trust
John Maounis, Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Anthony Pitch
Julie Schablitsky, Cultural Resources Division, State Highway Administration
Don Shomette
Mike Smolek, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
John Sower, Friends of the Battle of Bladensburg
Anna von Lunz, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Courtney Wilson, B&O Railroad Museum

Education and Curriculum
Matt Boratenski, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
David Rudolph, Cecil County Representative
Nancy Grasmick, Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
James Lyons, Maryland Higher Education Commission
John Mahlmann, National Association for Music Education
Stephen A. Martin, Take Two Interactive / Firaxis Games
Edward Papenfuse, Maryland State Archives
Bill Mules, Mules Consulting
David Taft Terry, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Larry Unger, Maryland Public Television
Gay Vietzke, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
H. Clay Whitlow, Maryland Association of Community Colleges

Programs and Events
Brig. Gen. Jim Adkins, Maryland Military Department
Virginia Apyar, National Society of the US Daughters of 1812
Capt. Patrick Burns, Commemorations, History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy
Bill Gilmore, Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts
Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Colm O’Comartun, Office of Governor Martin O'Malley
Mary Margaret Revell Goodwin, Queen Anne’s County 1812 Commission
Laura Stevenson, Sail Baltimore
Lee Tawney, National Sailing Hall of Fame
Vince Vaise, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Alan Walden
M. Hall Worthington Jr., General Society of the War of 1812

Transportation and Capital Infrastructure
Sadara Barrow, Port Towns Community Development Corporation
Andrew Frank, Baltimore City Mayor's Office
John Griffin, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Walter James, Jr., City of Bladensburg
Richard Hall, Maryland Department of Planning
Dave Iannucci, Baltimore County Department of Economic Development
John Olszewski, Sr., Baltimore County Council
Samuel Parker, Jr., Maryland National Park and Planning Commission
Beverley Swaim-Staley, Maryland Department of Transportation

Communications and Marketing
Margot Amelia, Maryland Office of Tourism
Keith Bellows, National Geographic Traveler
Elliott Ferguson, Destination DC
Tom Noonan, Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association
Timothy Ryan, Baltimore Sun
Andrea Vernot, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development

Operations and Management
Hannah Byron, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
Eloise Foster, Maryland Department of Budget and Management

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