Officers

Warren Hamel (Broadneck), President

Lee Finney (City of Annapolis), Vice President

Mark Shenton (Annapolis Neck), Secretary

Jesse Maury (Annapolis Neck),  Treasurer

Board of Directors

Lyn Farrow Collins (Annapolis Neck)

Tony Evans (City of Annapolis)

Michelle Lefurge (Broadneck)

Sasha Miles (City of Annapolis)

Mike Miller (Annapolis Neck)

Matthew Mullin (Broadneck)

Sandy Stevenson (Broadneck)

Warren Hamel (Broadneck), President

Warren Hamel has been a member of the board of the D30 Democratic Club and served as vice-president since the club's founding in 2005. In addition to being involved in local, congressional and presidential campaigns in Maryland and other states for many years, Warren chaired the campaign
committee for John Sarbanes' successful campaign for Congress in 2006 and reelection in 2008, and continues as a campaign advisor to Rep. Sarbanes. In 2005, he took a leadership role along with several other District 30 Club members in organizing pollwatchers for Democratic candidates for the Annapolis City municipal elections, and has had an active role in local D30 and Anne Arundel County campaigns since. Warren became president of the D30 Democratic Club in January of 2010 after the retirement of Sarah Flynn, who lead the Club as President from the Club's founding to December 31, 2009.

Warren lives with his wife, Anne, and their three children in Arnold, two blocks from his parents' house, in the neighborhood where he grew up. He is an attorney practicing at Venable LLP in Baltimore; his primary practice areas are white collar criminal defense, environmental law and media law. Prior to joining Venable, Warren was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office in Baltimore for 12 years, specializing in environmental criminal enforcement.  He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chesapeake Bay Trust.

Lee Finney (City of Annapolis), Vice President

Lee has been on the D30 Board for four years and was recently elected by the Board to fill out the vacant vice president’s term.  She was appointed by the mayor in 2008 to the Blue Ribbon Commission on the City of Annapolis’ Finances and in 2009 – 2010 served on the new mayor’s Idea Team Public Safety Committee.  Lee was the vice president and chair of the Public Safety Task Force for the Eastport Civic Association for three years.  She has been actively involved in several local Democratic campaigns since her arrival in Annapolis four and a half years ago, including two turns managing Ross Arnett's successful run for Ward 8 Alderman. She also works as a volunteer researcher for Wider Opportunities for Women in D.C.

Born in Baltimore, Lee is a lifelong Democrat who moved to Annapolis from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2005 following her retirement as a labor relations consultant representing public employers in the Bay Area.  Previously a child welfare social worker for many years, Lee was a local leader in labor's efforts to achieve pay equity for women and minorities during the 1980's and worked on a number of local political campaigns during that period.  She served several years as the Chair of the Contra Costa County Advisory Committee on the Status of Women as well as on nonprofit boards and received several awards for her efforts on behalf of working women. 
 

Mark Shenton (Annapolis Neck), Secretary

Mark is a lifelong Democratic activist. As a teenager he campaigned for a little-known Congressman running for the U.S. Senate named Paul Sarbanes. He has participated in numerous presidential, state and local campaigns ever since. He has been an active District 30 Democratic Club board member since the Club's inception, and is a former member of the Anne Arundel Democratic Central Committee.

Mark now serves as the Maryland Democratic Party's Director of Voter File Technology, a position that was created by the Democratic National Committee's 50 State Partnership Program championed by DNC Chair Howard Dean.   Before becoming a political consultant he was an IT Manager for Verizon for more than two decades. 

Mark has lived in Anne Arundel County most of his life and currently resides in Hillsmere shores, just outside of Annapolis. He has a B.S. in Business Management from Columbia Union College and graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University.  Mark is happily married with three grown children, and a proud grandfather of two grandsons.

Jesse L. Maury (Annapolis Neck), Treasurer

Jesse has been a member of the District 30 Democratic Club board, and the treasurer, since the Club's inception.  In his professional life, he worked for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center as a mathematician; a developer of software for spacecraft, astronautics, data systems, and mathematical analysis; and as an information technology and software project manager for spacecraft including the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the constellation of satellites comprising the Earth Observing System (EOS), and briefly on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Space Station. He retired from government and worked for ten years at Omitron, Inc., a small aerospace technology company in Greenbelt, Maryland, on contracts with NASA, NOAA, and some private ventures; then followed this with a several-year stint at Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) working on Maryland State government contracts. His wife, Gail, works as an IT project manager for SAIC. The Maurys have two grown daughters, Laurel Maury, a freelance writer in New York, and Dr. Erinn Maury, a doctor practicing in Baltimore.

Board of Directors

Lyn Farrow Collins (Annapolis Neck)

Lyn Farrow Collins may be the only person in the State of Maryland who has served as both staff and an officer of the Maryland Democratic Party.  She has volunteered or worked on campaigns for Democratic candidates in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County and Statewide. 

Lyn currently serves as Grants Coordinator for the City of Annapolis.  She lives in Annapolis Neck with her husband Al.

Tony Evans (City of Annapolis)

 Tony Evans is a longtime Democratic activist who has lived in the City for more than thirty years and worked in Annapolis since 1961.  A former newspaperman (with UPI and the Baltimore News-American), he retired in 2003 after thirty years of service with the Maryland Department of Agriculture. One of his proudest achievements of his years at the MDA is the development of four farmers' markets in Anne Arundel County. He and his wife, Penny Evans, a former member of the Annapolis Democratic Central Committee, have been married for more than forty years and raised two children. Tony was elected to represent Ward 1 on the Annapolis Democratic Central Committee in September 2005, and he is ADCC treasurer as well an alternate (for Anne Sieling) on the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee (AACDCC).  He has been involved in many campaigns of local Democrats,claiming a 74% success rate since 1972, when he was one of Hubert Humphrey's advance team.  When not politicking, Tony sells fruit from the Anne Arundel County's famed Harris Orchard, and is known to many market-going Annapolitans as "the peach man."

 Michelle Lefurge (Broadneck)

Michelle LeFurge is a “jobs Democrat,” coming to her political and cultural awareness during the devastation of the Reagan years.  Beginning her professional life as a political analyst, editor and foreign delegations director in Washington, DC, Michelle shifted from foreign policy activism to local activism with a move to Montana in 1986.  Working with her partner and Montana-native husband, Dr. Dennis Winters, she developed community-led economic development programs for crisis communities and fought for workers jobs in the embattled natural resource industry as a grassroots coalition organizer, traveling the state with her Jesse Jackson for President bumper sticker until it disintegrated sometime in 1991.  Returning to Washington after living overseas, Michelle and Dennis moved to Arnold in 2003.  Both entered into academia: Michelle began graduate school and Dennis returned to teaching as professor at UMUC.

Michelle completed her masters’ degree in management and community organizing at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work where she embarked on the theoretical development of narrative use in grassroots activation.  In 2008, Michelle made her first move into Democratic Party politics, volunteering for Barak Obama as manager of the Annapolis Obama phone bank.  After celebrating our president’s history making win, Michelle joined Zina Pierre’s campaign for mayor of Annapolis in February 2009, serving as volunteer campaign manager in Ms. Pierre’s successful primary run for Mayor of Annapolis.  When Josh Cohen moved into the general election as the Democratic nominee for Mayor, Michelle joined his successful campaign as community outreach director.

Michelle currently serves as Board Member of her Pines on the Severn community association and as a Committee Member of the Anne Arundel County Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee. She also provides valuable editorial support to Dennis as he expands his academic achievements from award-winning teacher to include writing and publishing on the pedagogy of teaching and learning online with non-mainstream students.  For fun, Michelle cooks, goes to bookstores, and “plays” with space planning and design.     

Sasha Miles (City of Annapolis)

A resident of Annapolis and a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sasha Miles is a 2006 graduate of Hood College in Frederick, MD (B.A., Political Science).  During her time at Hood College, she was active in Hood College Democrats (Vice President and President), Model United Nations (Vice President and Treasurer), and Student Government Association (Senator and Finance Committee Member).  She was also active in the Maryland Student Legislature (MSL), becoming the Hood College Delegation Chair during her sophomore year and Lieutenant Governor during her junior year. MSL is a statewide collegiate organization which simulates the Maryland General Assembly.

Sasha has also been involved in various political campaigns.  Her first campaign experience in the state of Maryland was phone banking for Sue Hecht's campaign for the Maryland Senate.  Sasha then went on to become involved in the John Kerry for President campaign, doing grassroots work in Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio.  She also traveled to South Dakota to assist in GOTV efforts for Stephanie Herseth during the 2004 special election for South Dakota's congressional seat.

Sasha's involvement in Maryland politics deepened during the 2005 Legislative Session when she completed an internship for Delegate Peter Franchot.  She then worked as his Legislative Aide through the 2006 Legislative Session and, subsequently, became the Deputy Finance Director for Franchot's successful campaign for Comptroller.  Sasha was a member of Franchot's transition staff in the Comptroller's office, served for 10 months as the Comptroller's scheduler, and currently serves as Special Assistant to the Comptroller.  In addition, Sasha is the Chair of the Young Democrats of Maryland Women's Caucus and  as the Secretary for the Anne Arundel Young Democrats.  She is also a member of the Young Democrats Of Maryland's Finance Committee and Bylaws Committee.

Michael G. Miller (Annapolis Neck)

Mike was one of the founding organizers of the Anne Arundel County effort to elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.  Along with County Councilman Jamie Benoit, the leadership of Maryland for Obama, and a broad-based group of volunteers, Mike and his wife, Cheryl, were instrumental in the successful mobilization of Maryland as a stronghold for Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary season and the November general election.  The Millers established the Anne Arundel County for Obama headquarters with a  donation of space at a commercial building they own on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park, and they were both privileged to be members of the official Maryland delegation for Obama at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver.

Mike's business activities and professional career have spanned a broad range of interests centered on commercial real estate portfolio investment, corporate financial management and not-for-profit community service.  Mike has a BA from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Early in his career, he served as Business Manager of a small liberal arts college in Florida and as Director of Finance for Africare, an international development assistance agency.  Ultimately, Mike served on the Board of Directors of Africare, and lived with his family in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1994 to 1996, working closely with the then-recently-elected government of Nelson Mandela.  The Millers invest in value-added raw land development opportunities and hold improved commercial real estate for rental to non-residential tenants.  

Mike and Cheryl will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary in 2009.  Mike was born and raised in Washington, DC, and has adopted Anne Arundel County, his wife's family home, as his own.  The Millers have lived in the Wild Rose Shores community in Annapolis Neck since 2006.  They have two daughters in the "early stages" of adulthood.

Matthew P. Mullin (Broadneck)

An active environmentalist all his career, Matt worked for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as an intern, a field educator and finally Director of Operations.  He is currently Maryland Director for the Chesapeake Bay Commission, a tri-state legislative authority that advises the General Assemblies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia and well as the US Congress in developing sound policies and law related to the Chesapeake Bay. 

In 2007 he co-founded the Willow Oak Group, LLC, a consulting firm in Annapolis, specializing in design and implementation of professional solutions that achieve positive social, economic and environmental change.   Matthew has a MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins, a graduate-level Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University and a BA from Washington College in Chestertown, MD.  He served on Governor O'Malley's Transition Team and holds numerous professional memberships and appointments, including the National Scholars Honor Society and Washington College Alumni Board.   He is a tri-athlete, a canoer and kayaker, skier, hunter and fisherman.  He and his wife, Karen, live outside of Annapolis with daughters Maggie and Cate and Border collie Jackson.

Sandy Stevenson (Broadneck)

Sandy Stevenson has been a District 30 Democratic Club board member since the founding of the club in 2005.  She has been a volunteer in two special elections in the City and for the Democratic candidate for Congress in District 1 in 2006.  She also helped organize and worked on the Club's Poll Watching Project during the 2005 Annapolis city elections and most recently during the recent Maryland elections, working to elect Frank Kratovil in November, 2008.

She has been a resident of the Annapolis area since 2004, and the Baltimore-Washington area since the 1970's; she also lived in Atlanta for several years.  While in Atlanta, she worked on two congressional campaigns challenging Newt Gingrich: for Ben Jones in 1994 and Michael Coles in 1996.   After returning to the D.C. area, she volunteered on campaigns for Jim Moran and John Kerry.

Sandy is retired from 3M Company, where she was a sales and marketing consultant for several divisions to the federal government.  Sandy says,”As a lifelong Democrat, I feel it is critical that we broaden and strengthen the party, beginning at the grass roots.  I plan to keep working to keep a Democratic president in the White House and to increase the number of Democrats in the House and Senate."