At a press conference today, Governor-elect Larry Hogan announced that 20 more Marylanders would be joining the Hogan-Rutherford transition team. The press conference took place at 45 Calvert Street in downtown Annapolis, home to the Maryland Department of Budget and Management, with most of the new additions to the team in attendance.
Mr. Hogan has chosen the following three women to serve on his personnel review team:
-Katja Bullock, former Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
-Ande Fulton Rhodes, Personnel Director for Anne Arundel County and former Personnel Director for the State of Maryland
-Diane Baker, former Deputy Appointments Secretary for the State of Maryland
The Governor-elect also named the following three gentlemen to head up his business regulation review team:
-Jim Soltesz, President and CEO of Soltesz, Inc., a Maryland-based engineering and design firm
-Ed Dunn, CEO of American Mechanical Services
-Abba Poliakoff, attorney at the firm Gordon Feinblatt, LLC
Finally, the Governor-elect announced 14 members of a transition advisory board:
-Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey, diplomat and former candidate for Governor of Maryland
-Doug Duncan, former County Executive for Montgomery County
-Jimmy Rhee, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade in the Commonwealth of Virginia
-Helen Bentley, former U.S. Congresswoman
-Joe Bartenfelder, former Delegate and member of the Baltimore County Council
-Doug DeLeaver, Director of Community Relations for the Maryland State Police
-David Craig, Harford County Executive
-Kelly Schulz, Delegate
-Sam Malhotra, Founder and CEO of Subsystems, an IT services company based in Rosslyn, Va.
-Steve Hershey, State Senator
-Jeannie Haddaway, Delegate
-Chris Shank, State Senator
-Dr. Juliette Bell, President of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
-Luis Borunda, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Hispanic Business Conference & President and CEO of U.S. Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur Education
