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County Council Member, Maryland
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Nancy Floreen
100 Maryland Ave, 6th Floor
Rockville, Maryland 20850
240-777-7959
Councilmember.Floreen@montgomerycountymd.govhttp://www.nancyfloreenforcouncil.com
Committees: Chair, Transportation infrastructure energy and Environment 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.
