MARYLAND HOUSE OF DELEGATES

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JOHN FRANK SLADE III, Democrat, District 29B, St. Mary's & Calvert Counties.

Member of House of Delegates since 1983. House Chair, Joint Audit Committee (formerly Joint Budget and Audit Committee), 1995-. Member, Appropriations Committee, 1991- (capital budget subcommittee; oversight committee on pensions; oversight committee on program open space & agricultural land preservation; vice-chair, public safety & administration subcommittee). Member, Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, 1995-; Special Committee on School Enrollment Management, 1996-; Special Joint Committee on Pensions. Member, Special Joint Committee on Competitive Taxation and Economic Development, 1996-97. Past member, Legislative Council's Special Committee on Rape and Related Offenses. Chair, St. Mary's County Delegation, 1995-.

Assistant Public Defender, St. Mary's County, 1972-74. Assistant State's Attorney, St. Mary's County, 1975-76. District Public Defender, District 4, 1976-82. Member, Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland, 1983-; Aquaculture Advisory Committee, 1988-95; Task Force on Feasibility of Future Consolidation of State Psychiatric Hospitals, 1993-95; Task Force on Affiliation between Historic St. Mary's City Commission and St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1996-; Historic St. Mary's City Commission, 1997-.

Past member, Youth Commission, St. Mary's County; Community College Advisory Board, St. Mary's County; Ethics Law Review Committee, St. Mary's County. Past member, Region II Planning Board, Governor's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.

Born in Leonardtown, Maryland, August 5, 1943. Great Mills High School; St. Mary's College of Maryland; University of Maryland, B.S., 1967; University of Baltimore School of Law, LL.B., 1969. Attorney. Married; three children.

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