Jean B. Cryor

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name = Jean B. Cryor

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order = Delegate Maryland District 15
term_start = January 11, 1995
term_end = January 10, 2007
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predecessor = Gene W. Counihan, Judith C. Toth, & Jean W. Roesser
successor = Craig L. Rice
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birth_place = Delaware County, PA
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constituency = Montgomery County, MD
party = Republican
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Jean B. Cryor (born December 13, 1938) near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 15, which covers a portion of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Background

Delegate Cryor was first elected in 1993 when all three sitting delegates did not run for reelection in the 1993 election. She served for 12 years until 2007, when she was defeated by Craig L. Rice, an election which saw many Republicans voted out of office nationwide. She was the last elected Republican in the Maryland General Assembly serving Montgomery County.

Education

Delegate Cryor attended Convent of the Sacred Heart in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1979, she graduated from Loyola College in Maryland with her M.B.A.

Career

Delegate Cryor is a former writer and worked as an editor and publisher of the Gazette Newspapers. She is the co-founder of TACKLE, a group established to fight the Baltimore stadium funding, 1996.

In 2000, she was selected as a delegate for the Republican Party National Convention. In addition to her delegate work, she is a board member of the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes [http://www.jfgh.org/] . She is also on the board for Convent of the Sacred Heart and the Potomac Theater Company [http://www.potomacstages.com/Potomac.htm] .

Delegate Cryor has won several awards over her career, including first prize for Investigative Reporting by the Maryland Society of Professional Journalists [http://www.spj.org/mdpro/] in 1993. She was also awarded Citizen of the Year by Almanac Newspapers. In 2000 she was elected Legislator of the Year by the Maryland Retailers Association [http://www.mdra.org/] . In 2002, she was Businessperson of the Year according to the Maryland Business for Responsive Government [http://www.mbrg.org/] . She was also named a Hero of the Taxpayer by the Maryland Taxpayers Association [http://www.mdtaxes.org/] .

In 2002, she was many awards including the award for Building the Bridge to Educational Excellence in Maryland Public Schools by the State Board of Education, Legislator of the Year by the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation and Registry of Maryland, and the Thornton Commission Award by the State Board of Education. Additionally, she has voted as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by the Daily Record in 2003 and again in 2006, the Woman of Achievement Award by the Suburban Maryland Business and Professional Women Association in 2005, and finally she received a Lifetime Service Award from the Potomac Chamber of Commerce [http://www.potomacchamber.org/] in 2006.

While in the House of Delegates, Cryor was a member of the following committees: Ways and Means Committee from 1995 until 2007, the Conference committee on taxes in 1996, the Joint Committee on Community College Funding in 1996, the Rules and Executive Nominations Committee from 2004 until 2007, and the Legislative Policy Committee from 2005 until 2007. Furthermore, she also served on the Special Committee on State Employee Rights and Protections from 2005 until 2007, and the House Facilities Committee from 2005 until 2007. She was a member of the Steering Committee for the House Republican Caucus for ten years starting in 1997, the County Affairs Committee, and the Montgomery County Delegation. Finally, she was on the Executive Board of the Women Legislators of Maryland from 2006 until 2007, serving as president-elect from 2003-04 and president from 2004 until 2005.

Election Results

*2006 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 15cite web| url=http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2002/results/g_house_of_delegate.html| title=House of Delegates Results |publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections Retrieved on Nov. 20, 2007] ::Voters to choose three::

*1994 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 15cite web| url=http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/1994/results_1994/gahod.html| title=House of Delegates Results |publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections Retrieved on Nov. 20, 2007] ::Voters to choose three::

External links

* [http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/former/html/msa12204.html]

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