[photo, Rosemary King Johnston, Executive Director, Maryland Governor's Office for Children]

ROSEMARY KING JOHNSTON
Executive Director, Governor's Office for Children 2008-12

Executive Director, Governor's Office for Children, December 8, 2008 to June 15, 2012.

Chair, Children's Cabinet, 2008-12; Advisory Council to the Children's Cabinet, 2008-12. Member, State Child Fatality Review Team, 2008-12; Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council, 2008-12; Interagency Disabilities Board, 2008-12; Maryland State Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council, 2008-12; Governor's Family Violence Council, 2008-12; Governor's Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2008-12; Early Childhood Development Advisory Council, 2009-12. Chair,Maryland Commission on Suicide Prevention, 2010-12 (member, 2009-12); Resident Child and Youth Care Practitioners Implementation Plan Summer Study Work Group, 2011.

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.

Chair, State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services, 2013-. Member, Advisory Board on After-School and Summer Opportunity Program, 2014-16; Juvenile Justice Reform Council, 2019-.

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. Community Advisory Council, Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities. Co-Chair, Partnership to End Childhood Hunger in Maryland. Advocate Award, Share Our Strength, 2009.

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