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WILSON H. PARRANPresident, Board of County Commissioners, Calvert County, At Large, December 19, 2006 to December 7, 2010 (member, 2002-10; vice-president, 2005-06). Member, Board of Health, Calvert County, 2002-10; Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee of Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
Member, Special Commission on State Parks, 1999-2000; Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland, 2002- (executive board); Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board, 2003-06; Commission to Study Local Maintenance of Effort [for educational funding], 2005-07.
Chief of Information Technology, Department of Natural Resources, 2007-08, 2010-11. Assistant Secretary, Mission Support, Department of Natural Resources, 2011-13.
Deputy Secretary of Administration and Operations, Department of Transportation, 2013-15.
Board of Governors, Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, 2014-. Member, Board of Library Trustees, Calvert County, 2016-.
Columbia Union College, B.S.; George Washington University, M.S. (information systems). Served in U.S. Air Force. Employed by AT&T, 1968-79; Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone, 1979-95; Frontier Communications, 1995-97. Consulting manager, KPMG Peat Marwick, 1997-99. Director, Management Information Systems, Calvert County, 1999-2000. Chief Information Officer, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, 2003-06. Former President, Windspeed Technologies, Inc. Leadership Maryland, 1999. Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2000. Board of Directors, Local Government Insurance Trust, 2008-. Leadership Southern Maryland, 2009. Board of Directors, Maryland Association of Counties, 2010 (secretary, 2007; 1st vice-president, 2008; president, 2009). Member, Calvert Alliance Against Substance Abuse. Member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Friends of Calvert Marine Museum; Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park Museum; Friends of Wolf Trap Foundation. Past member, Board of Trustees, College of Southern Maryland; Calvert Memorial Hospital Foundation (past president); Calvert Adult Day Care. Past president, Maryland Association of Boards of Education. Charles W. Willis Award, Maryland Association of Boards of Education, 2007. Married; two children, three grandchildren.
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