Leadership Council

Hearts & Homes for Youth owes its rich history to the vision of just a few people. Yet, there would be no history at all, no saving of the lives of thousands of troubled children, without a host of community leaders from all walks of life signing on to share that vision.

It was the willingness of those first community leaders who shared their unique experiences, their well known and respected personal and professional capacities and moreover, their public persona and reputation, that brought a vision into a reality.  Truly, a few became many.  This host of individuals and groups, chronicled in the widely read success story “The House That People Built” published in 1969 laid the groundwork for the establishment of like programs in Maryland and across the nation.

The future of Hearts & Homes for Youth, even now, depends upon more than just a few. The vision lives. It is alive and growing with the sight of so many children, now four decades later, whose lives may depend upon the realization, the success of our mission. Perhaps at no other time in 44 years has the challenge been more daunting.

The Leadership Council of Hearts & Homes for Youth is that host of Community Leaders who share our vision and mission. Each individual, through their own achievement, has contributed in large measure to the welfare of the community whether through the corporate business world, as a professional or skilled person, an elected or appointed official or volunteer. Many have devoted a good part of their lives contributing to others in either a personal or professional capacity; always “leading” by example, and not always publicly recognized.

The members of the Leadership Council are Advocates. They are willing to share an identity with and for Hearts & Homes for Youth, lending their reputation and the respect they receive from others in the community. They lend credibility to the Mission and contribute to the integrity of the agency values. Each brings a unique perspective; personal and public leadership experiences and the capacity to reach out to a multitude of others as advocates, increasing the visibility of our agency and the crucial needs of the children we serve.

The Leadership Council is a loose-knit ‘organization’ of like minded community leaders woven into the fabric of Hearts & Homes for Youth.  They need not come together in committee to be a force for the future. They are nonetheless together as an integral part of and key to our success; bound by the cohesiveness of sharing advice and counsel, planning for the future, or for special events or activities which contribute to, perhaps ensure, the life of a child. 

 Leadership Council Members

• Hon. Constance (Connie) Morella, U.S. Ambassador                    former U.S. Congressperson-Maryland
• Hon. Nancy Kopp, Maryland State Treasurer
  former State Delegate to General Assembly
• Peter Franchot, Maryland State Comptroller 
  former State Delegate to General Assembly
• Hon. Mike Miller, President  
  Maryland Senate
• Hon. Mike Busch  
  Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Hon. Douglas M. Duncan   
  former County Executive for Montgomery County,
  Mayor, City of Rockville
• Hon. Thomas E. Dernoga, Chair 
  Prince George’s County Council
• Jack Fitzgerald, Owner 
  Fitzgerald Auto Malls
• Hon. Wayne Curry 
  former County Executive, Prince George’s County
• Hon. Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General 
  State of Maryland,
  former State’s Attorney for Montgomery County
• Hon. Cas Taylor
  former Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Hon. Glenn Ivey, States Attorney 
  Prince George’s County, Maryland
• John Taylor
  former Chair of the Board for Hearts & Homes
• Wayne Shelton
  former Chair of the Board for Hearts & Homes
• John J. Delaney, Esq.
  Linowes and Blocher LLP
• Hon. Nathaniel Exum, Maryland State Senator
  Prince George’s County
• Hon. John J. McCarthy, State’s Attorney
  Montgomery County
• Hon. Robert H. Mason, Judge
  Circuit Court, Prince George’s County, Maryland
• Hon. Edgar Silver
  Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan & Silver, LLC,
  former Delegate-Maryland General Assembly,
  former Judge-Supreme Bench, Baltimore City
• Hon. Talamadge Branch
  Maryland Delegate-Baltimore City, Majority Whip
• Hon. Marilyn R. Goldwater, RN
  Maryland House of Delegates
• Milton (Sonny) F. Clogg
  former Member of the HHY Board of Directors
• John Welch
  President/CEO of the USEC Inc.
• Peter A. Carnathan
  Senior Vice President of Fiduciary Investment Management International and Vice President/NY for Fiduciary Trust Company International
  
• Wes Foster
  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Long & Foster® Companies
  
• Thelma Stevens Mrazek
  former Chair of the Board for Hearts & Homes
• Esther P. Gelman, GELCO Consultants
  former Montgomery County Council
• Stewart (Stu) Bainum, Chairman
  Choice Hotels International,
  former Maryland State Senator
• Victor A. Broccolino, President/CEO
  Howard County General Hospital
• Frank Sciacca, retired
  Multiple Business Owner
• Major General John R. Hawkins
  Deputy Assistant to Secretary of Army
• John C. Allen
  BB&T Capital Markets/Windsor Group
• Hon. Leonard S. Blondes
  Esq. former Delegate of Maryland General Assembly
• Hon. Mary Boergers
  former Maryland State Senator
• Gabriel Albornoz, Director
  Montgomery County Department of Recreation
• William C. Birely
  former Montgomery County Council member
• Stanley W. Tucker
  Meridian Management Group, Inc.
• Jerry Pritchett
  former Board member, Hearts and Homes for Youth 
• Hon. Robert M. Bell, Chief Judge
  Court of Appeals of Maryland
• Ron Sanford Jordan
• Weldon Latham
• Matthew T. Logan
• Alexias Sharoky
• Douglas Duncan
  VP of Administration Affairs at the University of Maryland College Park
• Joan Bizclow
• Rose Marie Bogley
• Austin Kiplinger