Maryland Delegates to the Democratic National Convention 2004
Capital News Service
Friday, July 23, 2004
8TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT NAOMI BLOCH, 51, of Potomac, is co-chairwoman of Montgomery County for Kerry and a homemaker. She also is a member of the steering committee for Maryland for Kerry. She says she was one of a handful of people who attended a Montgomery support group for Kerry before the Iowa caucus. This will be her first convention. She is married and has three children. DONNA CALLEJON, 42, of Garrett Park, says she was an early supporter of Edwards' presidential campaign. The convention will be her first. Callejon has raised funds for Edwards. She served on the finance committee for U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Kensington, in the 2001 election. Callejon is vice president of GlobalGiving.com, a Web site that connects philanthropic donors with charitable organizations. In 2000, Callejon stepped down from Fannie Mae as a senior vice president after 15 years there. DOUGLAS COOK, 71, of Bethesda, was a staff director for Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives in the 1960s. He ran economic research projects for the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration from 1966-1995. He says he became involved in Democratic politics as a student at the University of Michigan, after serving as a medic during the Korean War. He went door to door, raising money for the party in 1958. He has volunteered for Edwards' campaign and for Sen. Bill Bradley's bid for president in the 2000 primaries. He is married with two children. RICHARD J. HIRN, 50, of Chevy Chase, got his first taste of the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972 as an alternate delegate fresh out of high school. His interest in Democratic politics goes back to 1968, when he was a 14-year-old opposed to the Vietnam War, volunteering on Sen. Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign. He can only think of two presidential cycles in which he was not involved, whether as a volunteer or a delegate: Bill Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996 and Al Gore's campaign in 2000. Hirn is a lawyer with his own practice, dealing primarily with labor union matters. CHERYL KAGAN, 43, of Rockville, served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1995-2003. She is executive director of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation. She is on the state steering committee for Kerry. She was a member of the House Appropriations and House Commerce and Government Matters committees. She served as a campaign consultant for Van Hollen in 2002. She is married. SUSAN LISS, 52, of Chevy Chase, is a national co-chairwoman of Women for John Kerry. She runs Columbia University's Project on Medical Liability. Liss was an alternate delegate in the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and was the District of Columbia coordinator for Women for Gore. Liss was chief of staff for Tipper Gore from 1997-1998 and special counsel to Vice President Gore. She was a deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice and served as chief of staff of its Civil Rights Division. She is married with two children. RICHARD McKEON, 52, of Gaithersburg, is a consultant on suicide prevention for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is attending his first national political convention this year in Boston. After practicing psychology in New Jersey for 21 years, McKeon was a legislative assistant and health policy adviser to Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota until Wellstone's death in October 2002. He has volunteered on the campaigns of George McGovern (1972), Edward Kennedy (1980) and Al Gore (2000). He is married with two children. Alternate WILLIAM H. MINOR, 37, of Bethesda, is a partner at the law firm Piper Rudnik, specializing in government and legislative affairs. He has worked for the Democratic Campaign Committee, U.S. Reps. Joseph P. Kennedy, D-Mass, and Edward Markey, D-Mass., and the American Civil Liberties Union. Minor has helped Kerry's campaign on policy issues and also raised money as a member of the campaign's get-out-the-youth-vote wing. He has been to previous national conventions, but this year's will be his first as a delegate. He is married with a child. AT-LARGE BRANDI CALHOUN, 25, of Clinton, is the financial administrator for the Ark of Safety Christian Church in Oxon Hill. She received a master's degree from Frostburg State University and wrote her thesis on the need for more community youth programs. Calhoun is pledged to Edwards. This will be her first trip to a convention. CONNIE DEJULIIS, 58, of Dundalk, was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1991 until 1994 and lost to Robert Ehrlich in the 1996 election to represent Maryland's Second District in the House of Representatives. She was also a member of the Constitutional and Administration Law and Economic Matters Committee. She is pledged to Kerry. DONNA S. EDWARDS, 49, of Baltimore, was the first woman to be elected secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Edwards is president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 112. She is pledged to Kerry. CAMILLE EXUM, 34, of Capitol Heights, is a Prince George's County councilwoman. She is the daughter of state Sen. Nathaniel Exum, D-Prince George's. She is a public affairs graduate of Lincoln University and has been active in the following organizations: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; Maryland Professional Employees Council, AFT Local 6197; Prince George's Young Democrats; Lincoln University Alumni Association; Peppermill Village Civic Association; and the Maryland Professional Employees Council, AFT Local 6197. She is pledged to Edwards. PATRICIA FOERSTER, 64, of Cockeysville, is president of the Maryland State Teacher's Association and on leave as a teacher. Foerster is pledged to Kerry at what will be her third Democratic National Convention. LISA GLADDEN, 39, of Baltimore, is a state senator and former member of the Maryland House of Delegates. She is a past president of the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys. Gladden is also a member of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, where she is a Sunday school teacher and participates in the gospel choir. She is pledged to Edwards. PAM GUZZONE, 41, of Columbia, is a NASA management analyst. Her husband, Guy Guzzone, is Howard County Council chairman and a Standing Committee delegate. She will be attending her first convention as delegate pledged to Kerry. JOSEPH HANSEN, 61, of Rockville, is president of the United Food and Commercial Worker's Union. He will be attending his first convention as a delegate pledged to Kerry. SOO LEE-CHO, 32, of Bethesda, is an attorney and member of the Coalition of Asian Pacific American Democrats of Maryland, which works to advance the interests of the state's Asian community. Lee-Cho is pledged to Kerry and will be attending her first convention. ERUM MALIK, 43, of Ellicott City, is involved in volunteer work in her community and is also a member of the Coalition of Asian Pacific American Democrats. She also is a member of the Howard County Muslim Council. Malik is pledged to Kerry at what will be her first convention. FRED MASON, 57, of Annapolis, is chief executive officer and president of the Maryland AFL-CIO. He attended the Los Angeles convention in 2000 and is pledged to Kerry in 2004. ANNE MAHER, 53, of Takoma Park, is a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Kleinfeld, Kaplan, & Becker. She is married to Maryland Delegate Peter Franchot, D-Montgomery. Maher is pledged to Kerry. MELANIE MILLER, 35, of Bowie, is an airport manager and president of the Young Democrats of Maryland. In 2000, she traveled with 44 Maryland Young Democrats to the Los Angeles convention, the only other convention she attended. Miller said 52 Young Dems would join her this year. She is pledged to Kerry. HEATHER MIZEUR, 31, of Takoma Park, is a member of her City Council. She is also director of domestic policy for Kerry, for whom she has pledged her vote at the convention. WAYNE ROGERS, 49, of Annapolis, is chairman of Kerry's Maryland campaign and the former chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party. He is a businessman at Synergics, which is involved in the field of renewable energy. He is pledged to Kerry. DORIS J. SPENCER, 64, of Chesapeake Beach, is managing member of Cammack Settlements LLC., a Maryland title company. She is also a member of the National Congress of Black Women. Spencer is pledged to Kerry, and this will be her first convention. WILLIAM TAYLOR, 67, of Baltimore is a union official and a retired 35-year veteran firefighter. He is pledged to Kerry at this, his second, Democratic National Convention. VERONICA TURNER. 54, is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Prince George's County and holds a seat on the House Health and Government Operations Committee. She is president of the Service Employees International Union Local 63 and has been active in many organizations, including the NAACP, the Prince George's County Democratic Central Committee and the National Council of Negro Women. She is a member of Ebenezer AME Church. She also was a 1988 delegate to the Democratic National Convention. This year she is pledged to Kerry. ELIZABETH ZOGBY, 31, of Baltimore, is a freelance information architect and an instructor of online courses in library science at Drexel University. Zogby pledged to Kerry and will be attending her first convention. - MORE-
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