The Honorable Adrienne A. Mandel was appointed as a WSSC Commissioner from Montgomery County in October 2007. She was elected to serve as chair of WSSC at the October Commission meeting. Ms. Mandel retired from the Maryland Legislature in 2007, after serving three four-year terms as a State Delegate from Montgomery County’s Legislative District 19.
Ms. Mandel authored landmark legislation in the areas of highway deaths and injuries, regulation and oversight of WSSC, services and programs for the elderly and expanded access to quality, affordable health care. For seven years, she was Delegation Chair of the Bi-County Committee with jurisdiction over the WSSC. Ms. Mandel was elected president of the 64-member Women Legislators of Maryland and served on the Executive Board of the National Foundation for Women Legislators.
Ms. Mandel retired in 1997 from an 18-year career with Montgomery County Government during which time she opened the Holiday Park Multi-Service Senior Center, served as a Special Projects Coordinator with the Department of Health and Human Services, and for 10 years was a lobbyist to the State Legislature for the County’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations. Prior to her service in local government, she was a staff member in the offices of a U.S. senator and congressman.
Currently a member of the Board of Advisors of The Center on Global Aging for Catholic University of America, Ms. Mandel also is a member of the friends Advisory Board of the Montgomery County Conservation Corps. She is a member of the League of Women Voters, Congregation Har Shalom, the Women’s Suburban Democratic Club and District 19 Democratic Club.
Ms. Mandel has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in Legislative Policy from George Washington University and completed an Executive Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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