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Purple Line NOW! Board of Directors


2011 Executive Committee/Board Members
  1. President: Ralph Bennett
    Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects, Inc.

  2. Vice President: Nancy Soreng
    League of Women Voters of Montgomery County

  3. Treasurer: Wayne Phyillaier

  4. Secretary: Greg Sanders

  5. At Large: Lisa Fadden
    Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

  6. Jim Clarke

  7. Mark Coles
    Washington, DC Building and Construction Trades Council

  8. Heather Dlhopolsky
    Greater Bethesda Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce

  9. Andy Fellows
    Mayor of the City of College Park

  10. G. Keith Haller
    President/CEO, Potomac Incorporated

  11. Tony Hausner

  12. Erwin Mack
    Takoma-Langley Crossroads Community Development Authority

  13. Matthew Popkin
    Director of Sustainability at the Student Government Association of U-Md.

  14. Eddie Pounds

  15. Jane Redicker
    Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce

  16. Reuben Snipper
    Takoma Park City Council

  17. Brad Stewart
    Montgomery College

  18. Victor Weissberg

  19. Lateefah Williams
    Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689

Ex-officio Board Members

Note: PLN has a policy that elected officials above the Municipal level can not serve on the Board of Directors. However, we want to work closely with our elected governments at both the County and State levels and created the ex-officio category to improve communication with these officials.

  1. George Leventhal
    Montgomery County Council

  2. Eric Olson
    Prince George's County Council

  3. Tom Hucker
    Maryland House of Delegates

We thank past members of our Board for their work in support of the Purple Line:
  1. Edward Hall Asher (2003-08), The Chevy Chase Land Company.
  2. Vance Ayres (2008-09), Washington, D.C. Building and Construction Trades Council.
  3. Michele Cornwell (2006-10), The Chevy Chase Land Company.
  4. Jonathan Elkind (2009), Silver Spring Advocates.
  5. William Goddard, III (2007-08), Prince George's County.
  6. Andy Fraser (2006-09), Sandglass Systems, Inc.
  7. Kathy Jentz (2006-07), East Silver Spring.
  8. Howard Kohn (2003-05), Takoma Park.
  9. James Madaras (2003-04), Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU).
  10. Colleen Mitchell (2006-09), Silver Spring.
  11. Geoffrey Morgan (2008), Washington Adventist Hospital.
  12. Thomas D. Murphy (2006-08), EagleBank.
  13. Dan Parr (2003-06), Takoma Park.
  14. Kim Propeack(2003-08) is an attorney working for CASA of Maryland, Inc.
  15. Rich Parsons (2003-06), Montgomery County.
  16. Eleanor Rice (2003-08), Bethesda.
  17. Harry Sanders (2003-10; President, 2007-10), cofounder of the Action Committee for Transit.
  18. Craig Simpson (2006-2010); Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689.
  19. Andrew Scott (2006-07), Greater Washington Board of Trade
  20. Webb Smedley (2003-10), Woodside, Silver Spring.
  21. Jose Vazquez (2006-07), Wheaton.
  22. James R. Walker (2008-10), Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce and an executive with Eagle Bank.

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