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HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

COUNTY EXECUTIVES


CHARLES I. (CHUCK) ECKER, Ph.D.
County Executive (Republican), 1990-98



County Executive, Howard County, 1990-98. Member, Baltimore Regional Council of Governments, 1990-92; Governor's Task Force on School Construction, 1992-93; Baltimore Metropolitan Council, 1992-98 (chair, 1997-98). Board of Visitors, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical System, 1992-.

Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Howard County, 1963-67. Director of Business Affairs, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Prince George's County, 1967-74. Assistant Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent of Schools, Howard County, 1974-89. Co-Chair, Economic and Workforce Development Task Force of Commission on the Future of Howard Community College, 1998-99. Superintendent of Schools, Carroll County, 2002-10 (interim superintendent of schools, 2000-02 & former assistant superintendent of schools).

Member, Task Force to Study Public School Facilities, 2003; Governor's Commission on Quality Education, 2004-05 (vice-chair, subcommittee on global best-practices in education); Task Force on Comparable Testing Methods for the Maryland High School Assessments, 2004-06; Public School Labor Relations Board, 2011-.

Born in Uniontown, Maryland, December 8, 1928. Attended Westminster High School. Served in U.S. Navy, 1945-47. University of Maryland; Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), B.A. (biology & physical education), 1951; University of North Carolina, M.E.D. (physical education), 1955, and Ph.D. (education administration), 1964. President, Association of School Business Officials, 1971-72. Delegate, Republican Party National Convention, 1996. Board of Directors, American Lung Association of Maryland, 1998-. Member, Executive Committee (at large), Maryland Council on Economic Education, 2003. Trustee Alumni Award, McDaniel College, 2010. Married; two children, eleven grandchildren.

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