MARYLAND SENATE

CHRISTOPHER VAN HOLLEN, JR., Democrat, District 18, Montgomery County.

James Senate Office Building, Room 304
110 College Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21401 - 1991
(301) 858-3137
(410) 841-3137
e-mail: christopher_vanhollen@senate.state.md.us

District office:
3514 Farragut Ave.
Kensington, MD 20895 - 2132
(301) 942-8581

Member of Senate since 1995. Chair, Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, 1998-. Member, Budget and Taxation Committee, 1995- (health, education & human resources subcommittee; pensions subcommittee); Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 1993-; Joint Committee on Fair Practices, 1997-.

Member, House of Delegates, 1991-94. Member, Environmental Matters Committee, 1991-92; Appropriations Committee, 1992-94 (health & the environment subcommittee). Chair, School Board Redistricting Committee, and Vice-Chair, County Affairs Committee, Montgomery County Delegation.

Legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Charles McC. Mathias, 1985-87. Professional staff member, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1987-89. Senior legislative advisor to Governor William Donald Schaefer, 1989-91.

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, January 10, 1959. Swarthmore College, B.A., 1982; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, M.P.P. (public policy), 1985; Georgetown University Law School, J.D., 1990. Attorney, law firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn. Member, American, Maryland State and Montgomery County Bar Associations. Councillor, The Atlantic Council. Member, Kensington Citizens Association. Outstanding Young Men of America award, 1989. Married; three children.

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