Advisory Council

The Honorable Mary Ann Saar
MD Secretary of Public Safety & Correctional Services and
Honorary Chair of the MBEC Advisory Council

Dr. Rita Colwell
Distinguished Professor, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology,
UMCP and Johns Hopkins University

Brigadier General (MD) J. (Seamus) Flynn
M.D., M.P.H., E.A.C.P., University of Maryland Medical System

LT General (MD) James F. Fretterd
Retired Adjutant General of MD and past Chair of the National Guard Bureau’s Steering Committee on International Affairs

Mr. Frank J. Komenda
Former MD State Senator & (Ret) Assoc. Vice Chancellor of the University System of MD

Brigadier General (MD) Benjamin F. Lucas II
Commander of the MD Defense Force

LT General (Ret) Clarence E. McKnight, Jr.
Chairman Community Learning & Information Network, Inc.

Mr. Bert W. Rein, Esq.
Partner at Willey, Rein & Fielding LLP, Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Past Director of the US Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Carl W. Stenberg III
Professor of Public Administration at the University of North Carolina

Dr. David Sumler
First President of MBEC
Assistant Secretary of Maryland Higher Education Commission

Dr. John S. Toll
President Emeritus of Washington Col. and
Chancellor Emeritus of the University System of MD

Dr. H. Mebane Turner
President Emeritus of the University of Baltimore

Dr. Ellen S. Zinner
Assistant to the President of Salisbury University