Ellen O. Moyer

Ellen Oosterling Moyer (born February 12, 1936), a Democrat, is the first woman Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, having been elected in 2001. As mayor, she established the Annapolis Conservancy Board and the city's Greenscape program.

Moyer was born Ellen Louise Oosterling to parents Henry John Oosterling and Mina (Johnson) Oosterling in Camden, New Jersey. She was raised in Towson, Maryland, and later attended Penn State University. She has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Towson High School and Penn State's Board of Trustees recognized her with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. [http://live.psu.edu/story/21838] She married Roger Moyer, former Mayor of Annapolis, and had five children with him. Ellen divorced Roger in 1973 and re-married to Tom Conroy (d. December 4, 2002) in 1979.

Prior to serving as mayor, Moyer was a member of the Annapolis city council (1987-2001) and the Maryland Racing Commission (1999-2003). She also taught a year of fifth-grade in Baltimore County, Maryland, served as executive director of the Maryland Commission for Women in the late 1970s, as a lobbyist of the Maryland Teacher's Association, and as a member of the Strategic Committee on the State Plan for Higher Education (1999-2000).

Ellen has 4 sons, Guy, John, Michael and Steven. And one daughter, Loni Moyer.She has 5 grandchildren.Her son,Guy and his wife Dawn Moyer have 2 sons,William Moyer and Joseph Benda and 2 daughters, Erin Moyer and Lauren Moyer. Her son John and his wife,Bretagne Moyer have one son, Owen Moyer.Fact|date=March 2008

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* [http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013711/html/msa13711.html Maryland Archives biography]