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Officers
Warren Hamel (Broadneck), President
Lee Finney (City of Annapolis), Vice President
Mark
Shenton
(Annapolis Neck), Secretary
Jesse Maury
(Annapolis Neck), Treasurer
Board of Directors
Tony Evans (City of Annapolis)
Sasha Miles (City of Annapolis)
Mike Miller (Annapolis Neck)
Matthew Mullin (Broadneck)
Carolyn Rodis (South County)
Sandy Stevenson (Broadneck)
Bios of our officers (elected or relected March 2009)
Warren Hamel (Broadneck),
President
Warren Hamel has been an active and committed Democrat since his early teens, and has been involved in local, congressional and presidential campaigns in New Jersey, New York and Maryland, including Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County. Warren chaired the campaign committee for John Sarbanes' successful campaigns for Congress in 2006 and 2008 and continues in that capacity. In 2005, he took a leadership role along with several other District 30 Club members in organizing pollwatchers for Democratic candidates for the Annapolis City municipal elections. Warren served as Vice President of the District 30 Democratic Club since its formation in 2005 until January 1, 2010, when he President of the Club, following the resignation of Sarah Flynn, who served as President from the club's founding in early 2005 through December 31, 2009.
Warren lives with his wife, Anne, and their three children (all Democrats--so far) in Arnold, two blocks from his parents' house, where he grew up. He is an attorney practicing at Venable LLP in Baltimore; his primary practice areas are white collar criminal defense, environmental law and media law. Prior to joining Venable, Warren was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office in Baltimore for 12 years, specializing in environmental criminal enforcement. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake Bay Trust.
Lee Finney (City of
Annapolis), Vice
President
Lee has been on the D30 Board
for two years and is the club's representative
to the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central
Committee, where she serves on the Strategic
Planning Committee. Lee is
the vice president and chair of the Public
Safety Task Force for the Eastport Civic
Association. She has been
actively involved in several local Democratic
campaigns since her arrival in Annapolis two
and a half years ago, including managing Ross
Arnett's successful run for Ward 8 Alderman.
She also works as a volunteer researcher for
Wider Opportunities for Women in
D.C.
Born in
Baltimore, Lee is a lifelong Democrat who moved
to Annapolis from the San Francisco Bay Area in
2005 following her retirement as a labor
relations consultant representing public
employers in the Bay Area. Previously a
child welfare social worker for many years, Lee
was a local leader in labor's efforts to
achieve pay equity for women and minorities
during the 1980's and worked on a number of
local political campaigns during that
period. She served several years as the
chair of the Contra Costa County Advisory
Committee on the Status of Women as well as on
nonprofit boards and received several awards
for her efforts on behalf of working
women. Less publicly political
during her years as a consultant to public
agencies, she was a member of the Wellstone
Democratic Club in Berkeley, CA and served as
an Election Protection volunteer in Arizona in
2004.
Mark Shenton (Annapolis Neck),
Secretary
Mark is a lifelong Democratic
activist. As a teenager he campaigned for a
little-known Congressman running for the U.S.
Senate named Paul Sarbanes. He has participated
in numerous presidential, state and local
campaigns ever since. He has been an active
District 30 Democratic Club board member since
the Club's inception, and is a former member of
the Anne Arundel Democratic Central
Committee.
Mark now
serves as the Maryland Democratic Party's
Director of Voter File Technology, a position
that was created by the Democratic National
Committee's 50 State Partnership Program
championed by DNC Chair Howard
Dean. Before becoming a political
consultant he was an IT Manager for Verizon for
more than two decades.
Jesse L. Maury (Annapolis
Neck), Treasurer
Jesse has been a member of the
District 30 Democratic Club board, and the
treasurer, since the Club's
inception. In his
professional life, he worked for NASA at the
Goddard Space Flight Center as a mathematician;
a developer of software for spacecraft,
astronautics, data systems, and mathematical
analysis; and as an information technology and
software project manager for spacecraft
including the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
(GRO), the constellation of satellites
comprising the Earth Observing System (EOS),
and briefly on the Hubble Space Telescope and
the Space Station. He retired from government
and worked for ten years at Omitron, Inc.,
a small aerospace technology company in
Greenbelt, Maryland, on contracts with NASA,
NOAA, and some private ventures; then followed
this with a several-year stint at Computer
Sciences Corp. (CSC) working on Maryland State
government contracts. His wife, Gail, works as
an IT project manager for SAIC. The Maurys have
two grown daughters, Laurel Maury, a freelance
writer in New York, and Dr. Erinn Maury, a
doctor practicing
in Baltimore.
Board of
Directors
Tony Evans (City of
Annapolis)
Tony Evans is a longtime Democratic activist who has lived in the City for more than thirty years and worked in Annapolis since 1961. A former newspaperman (with UPI and the Baltimore News-American), he retired in 2003 after thirty years of service with the Maryland Department of Agriculture. One of his proudest achievements of his years at the MDA is the development of four farmers' markets in Anne Arundel County. He and his wife, Penny Evans, a former member of the Annapolis Democratic Central Committee, have been married for more than forty years and raised two children. Tony was elected to represent Ward 1 on the Annapolis Democratic Central Committee in September 2005, and he is ADCC treasurer as well an alternate (for Anne Sieling) on the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee (AACDCC). He has been involved in many campaigns of local Democrats,claiming a 74% success rate since 1972, when he was one of Hubert Humphrey's advance team. When not politicking, Tony sells fruit from the Anne Arundel County's famed Harris Orchard, and is known to many market-going Annapolitans as "the peach man."
Sasha Miles (City of
Annapolis)
A resident of Annapolis and a
native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sasha Miles
is a 2006 graduate of Hood College in
Frederick, MD (B.A., Political Science).
During her time at Hood College, she was active
in Hood College Democrats (Vice President
and President), Model United Nations
(Vice President and Treasurer), and
Student Government Association (Senator
and Finance Committee Member). She
was also active in the Maryland Student
Legislature (MSL), becoming the Hood College
Delegation Chair during her sophomore year and
Lieutenant Governor during her junior year. MSL
is a statewide collegiate organization which
simulates the Maryland General Assembly.
Sasha
has also been involved in various political
campaigns. Her first campaign experience
in the state of Maryland was phone banking for
Sue Hecht's campaign for the Maryland
Senate. Sasha then went on to become
involved in the John Kerry for President
campaign, doing grassroots work in Maryland,
West Virginia, and Ohio. She also
traveled to South Dakota to assist in GOTV
efforts for Stephanie Herseth during the 2004
special election for South Dakota's
congressional seat.
Sasha's
involvement in Maryland politics deepened
during the 2005 Legislative Session when she
completed an internship for Delegate Peter
Franchot. She then worked as his
Legislative Aide through the 2006 Legislative
Session and, subsequently, became the Deputy
Finance Director for Franchot's successful
campaign for Comptroller. Sasha was a
member of Franchot's transition staff in the
Comptroller's office, served for 10 months as
the Comptroller's scheduler, and currently
serves as Special Assistant to the
Comptroller. In addition, Sasha is the
Chair of the Young Democrats of Maryland
Women's Caucus and as the Secretary for
the Anne Arundel Young Democrats. She is
also a member of the Young Democrats Of
Maryland's Finance Committee and Bylaws
Committee.
Michael G.
Miller
(Annapolis Neck)
Mike's business activities and professional career have spanned a broad range of interests centered on commercial real estate portfolio investment, corporate financial management and not-for-profit community service. Mike has a BA from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Early in his career, he served as Business Manager of a small liberal arts college in Florida and as Director of Finance for Africare, an international development assistance agency. Ultimately, Mike served on the Board of Directors of Africare, and lived with his family in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1994 to 1996, working closely with the then-recently-elected government of Nelson Mandela. The Millers invest in value-added raw land development opportunities and hold improved commercial real estate for rental to non-residential tenants.
Mike and Cheryl will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary in 2009. Mike was born and raised in Washington, DC, and has adopted Anne Arundel County, his wife's family home, as his own. The Millers have lived in the Wild Rose Shores community in Annapolis Neck since 2006. They have two daughters in the "early stages" of adulthood.
Matthew P. Mullin (Broadneck)
An active environmentalist all his career, Matt worked for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as an intern, a field educator and finally Director of Operations. He is currently Maryland Director for the Chesapeake Bay Commission, a tri-state legislative authority that advises the General Assemblies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia and well as the US Congress in developing sound policies and law related to the Chesapeake Bay.
In 2007 he co-founded the Willow Oak Group, LLC, a consulting firm in Annapolis, specializing in design and implementation of professional solutions that achieve positive social, economic and environmental change. Matthew has a MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins, a graduate-level Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University and a BA from Washington College in Chestertown, MD. He served on Governor O'Malley's Transition Team and holds numerous professional memberships and appointments, including the National Scholars Honor Society and Washington College Alumni Board. He is a tri-athlete, a canoer and kayaker, skier, hunter and fisherman. He and his wife, Karen, live outside of Annapolis with daughters Maggie and Cate and border collie Jackson.
Carolyn Rodis (South County)
An active member of the District 30 Democratic Club since its inception, Carolyn prefers poll-watching, canvassing, registering voters, getting out the vote and greeting people at D30 booths and events (to avoid working the phone bank!). She has canvassed in D30 for Speaker Busch - and still has a Mike Busch bumper sticker on her truck - for Frank Kratovil and for Debbie McKerrow, and in Virginia many weekends in the fall of 2008 for Obama, taking her young grandchildren to introduce them to canvassing. Carolyn has worked in every political campaign she can remember, starting with Lyndon Johnson (before she could vote). She was the volunteer coordinator for Peter Beilenson's campaign for Baltimore City Council and ran Janice Piccinini's second campaign for the State Senate after serving as Janice's legislative assistant.
A recovering attorney, Carolyn is a mediator and trainer. She volunteers as a mediator at the Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Center and served as secretary on its board of directors for three years. She co-founded Rodis and Henick, LLC, a, professional mediation service based in Maryland and working with families and businesses. She lives in South County with her husband, Elloyd Lotridge.
Sandy Stevenson
(Broadneck)
Sandy Stevenson has been a
District 30 Democratic Club board member since
the founding of the club in 2005.
She has been a volunteer in two special
elections in the City and for the Democratic
candidate for Congress in District 1 in
2006. She also helped
organize and worked on the Club's Poll Watching
Project during the 2005 Annapolis city
elections and most recently during the recent
Maryland elections, working to elect Frank
Kratovil in November,
2008.
She has
been a resident of the Annapolis area since
2004, and the Baltimore-Washington area since
the 1970's; she also lived in Atlanta for
several years. While in
Atlanta, she worked on two congressional
campaigns challenging Newt Gingrich: for Ben
Jones in 1994 and Michael Coles in
1996. After returning
to the D.C. area, she volunteered on campaigns
for Jim Moran and John
Kerry.
Sandy is retired from 3M Company, where
she was a sales and marketing consultant for
several divisions to the federal
government.
Sandy says, "As a
lifelong Democrat, I feel it is critical that
we broaden and strengthen the party, beginning
at the grass roots. I plan to keep
working to keep a Democratic president in the
White House and to increase the number of
Democrats in the House and Senate."
