MARYLAND HOUSE OF DELEGATES

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ADELAIDE (ADDIE) C. ECKARDT, Republican, District 37B, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, & Wicomico Counties.

Member of House of Delegates since 1995. Member, Economic Matters Committee, 1995- (health insurance subcommittee); Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1995-. Member, Special Joint Committee on Competitive Taxation and Economic Development, 1996-97. Chair, Caroline County Delegation, 1995-. Chair, Dorchester County Delegation, 1995-.

Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1943. Bryn Mawr Hospital School of Nursing; University of Maryland School of Nursing, B.S., 1978, M.S., 1981. Registered Nurse-Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. Member, Dorchester County Republican Central Committee, 1986-1994. Board of Directors, Dorchester General Hospital, 1988-. President, Maryland Nurses Association, 1989-91 (legislative chair, 1986-89, 1993-94). Executive Committee, Maryland Hospital Association, 1993-. Board member, Chesapeake Health Planning Systems (past president & vice-president). Member, Maryland Nurses Association; American Nurses Association; American Ortho-Psychiatric Association; Sigma Theta Tau. Psychiatric Nursing Award, University of Maryland Graduate School of Nursing, 1981. Nurse of the Year, District 4, Maryland Nurses Association, 1986, 1991. Rosalie S. Abrams Legislative Award, Maryland Nurses Association, 1988. Outstanding Board Member Award, Maryland Nurses Association, 1992. Married; three sons.

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