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e-mail: joseph.getty@senate.state.md.us
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Member of House of Delegates, January 11, 1995 to January 8, 2003, representing District 5 (Carroll County). Member, Commerce and Government Matters Committee, 1995-98 (state government & civil rights subcommittee, 1995-98). Deputy Minority Whip, 1999-2002. Member, Judiciary Committee, 1999-2003 (family & juvenile law subcommittee, 1999-2003); Article 27 (crimes & punishments) Revision Committee, 1999-2003.

Member, Cable Television Advisory Committee, Carroll County, 1989-93; Rural Historic Village Protection Program Advisory Committee of Maryland Environmental Trust, 1990-. Member, Charter Board, Carroll County, 1992. Member, Task Force to Review the State's Election Law, 1995; Commission to Revise the Election Code, 1996-97; Forensic Sciences Task Force, 2000-01; Committee on Access to Court Records, 2001-02. Director of Policy, Governor-elect's Transition Team, 2002-03. Member, Social Studies Task Force, State Department of Education, 2004-06.

Policy and Legislative Director, Office of Governor, 2004-07 (director of policy, 2003).

Born in Olney, Maryland, April 14, 1952. Washington College, B.A. (American studies), 1974; George Washington University, M.A. (American civilization), 1980; University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1996. Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1996. Attorney. Member, Maryland State Bar Association (section of family & juvenile law; section of solo & small firm practice). Acting Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1981-82. Architectural historian & historic preservation researcher/writer, 1982-87. Executive Director, Historical Society of Carroll County, 1987-94. Law clerk, general practice law firm, Westminster, 1994. Board of Governors, Union Mills Homestead Foundation, 1979-92. Chair, Carroll County Committee for Maryland's 350th Anniversary, 1983-84. Board of Directors, Preservation Maryland, 1984-90. Member, Carroll County Historic District Commission, 1989-92 (chair, 1992); Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, 1990-94 (legislative committee). Political Director, Ehrlich for Governor, 2002. Chair, Carroll County Republican Central Committee, 2002-03 (chair, 1991-92; member 1985-94). Author, Uniontown, Maryland-Walking Tour (1983); Carroll's Heritage: Essays on the Architecture of a Piedmont Maryland County (1987); The Engine of Liberty & Uniontown Advertiser (1993). Married; six children.

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