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County Council Member, Maryland

Contact Information

Nancy Floreen
100 Maryland Ave, 6th Floor 
Rockville, Maryland 20850
240/777-7959
Councilmember.Floreen@montgomerycountymd.gov
http://www.nancyfloreenforcouncil.com

Committees: Chair, Transportation and Environment Committee Member: Planning, Housing & Economic Development Committee, Homeland Security Committee

Bio

Nancy Floreen serves as an at-large member of the Montgomery County Council, elected on November 5, 2002. She serves as Chair of the Transportation and Environment Committee and is a member of the Planning, Housing, and Economic Committee. She is also the Council Representative to the Board of Directors of the Council of Governments (COG) and is vice chair of Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee and the Strathmore Hall Foundation. In addition, she is on theBoard of Directors of the Jewish Council on Aging.

A Democrat, Nancy brings to the Council a wealth of experience and expertise based on 20 years service in local, state, and federal government.

From 1986 to 1994, Nancy served as a Commissioner on the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. As a member of the County Planning Board, she worked on the development of Master Plans across the County, on Silver Spring redevelopment, and on balancing the need for growth with preservation of open space and protection of existing County neighborhoods. In addition, she served as president of the Maryland Citizen Planners Association.

More recently, Nancy worked as projects coordinator for United States Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and served as mayor of Garrett Park. As an attorney in private practice, she worked closely with seniors and the disabled community, in addition to business and community groups.

She served as president of the East Silver Spring Elementary School PTA and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Montgomery Housing Partnership, the Silver Spring Citizen's Advisory Board, the County Commission for Child Care, the Montgomery Parks Foundation, and the Silver Spring YWCA. A former Cub Scout leader and Sunday School teacher, Nancy is an active member of the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church.

She is a founding member of Montgomery Women, a bipartisan group created in 2000 to mentor and support women of all backgrounds who seek to be effective community leaders.

A native of Massachusetts, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1973 and her law degree from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey in 1976. In law school, she clerked for the New Jersey State Attorney General's office. Upon graduation, she worked in a private firm in Hartford, Connecticut before joining the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. She is a member of the bar in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Connecticut.

Floreen is married to attorney David Stewart and has three children, Matthew, Colin and Rebecca Stewart, all of whom attended Montgomery County Public Schools.