EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ROSEMARY KING JOHNSTON Executive Director

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Executive Director, Governor's Office for Children, since December 8, 2008.

Chair, Children's Cabinet, 2008-; Advisory Council to the Children's Cabinet, 2008-. Member, State Child Fatality Review Team, 2008-; Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council; Interagency Disabilities Board, 2008-; Maryland State Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council, 2008-; Governor's Family Violence Council, 2008-; Governor's Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2008-; Early Childhood Development Advisory Council, 2009-. Chair, Maryland Commission on Suicide Prevention, 2010- (member, 2009-).

Regional Administrator, Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services, State Department of Education, 1997-99. Program Manager, Divisional and State Interagency Support Branch, State Department of Education, 2000-08.

Finchburg State College, Finchburg, Massachusetts, B.S. (special education), 1968; The Johns Hopkins University, M.S.Ed. (special education & curriculum), 1986. Special education teacher, Wareham, Massachusetts, 1968-70; Prince George's County Public Schools, 1970-73. Special Education teacher and administrator, Harford County Public Schools, 1979-97. Member, National Education Association; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Council for Exceptional Children; Maryland State Teachers Association; National Association for Gifted Children.

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