LUCILLE MAURER

First elected in January 1987, and re-elected in
1991, Lucille Maurer is the first woman to serve as
Treasurer of Maryland. She is the twenty-first State
Treasurer since the Constitution of 1851 combined
the treasurers of the Western and Eastern Shores
into one officer selected by the General Assembly.
As Treasurer, she also serves as a member of the
Board of Public Works, the first woman to serve on
Maryland's highest administrative council.

A resident of Montgomery County since 1950,
Treasurer Maurer served in the House of Delegates
from 1969 to 1987. She was a member of the Ways
and Means Committee for sixteen years and also
chaired the Joint Committee on Federal Relations
for four years. In the legislature, she became widely
known for her experience in developing funding
formulas for the public schools and for her
leadership in fiscal affairs.

During the years she served in the legislature,
Ms. Maurer also was active in the National
Conference of State Legislatures, chairing the
Education Committee, 1979-80, and the Tax and
Trade Committee, 1985-86. From 1980 to 1982,
she served on the Intergovernmental Advisory
Council of the U.S. Department of Education as a
Presidential appointee.

Before her election to the House of Delegates,
Treasurer Maurer was twice elected to the
Montgomery County Board of Education, serving
simultaneously as a Trustee of Montgomery
College from 1960 to 1968. In 1967, she was

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elected to the Maryland Constitutional Convention
where she served on the Executive Branch
Committee. She has been a delegate to several
Democratic Party National Conventions.

Since her election as Treasurer, Ms. Maurer has
continued to take an active interest in national
professional organizations. She is an active member of
the National Association of State Treasurers, serving
as President in 1993. Formerly, she served as senior
Vice President, Legislative Chair and Chair of the
Northeast Regional Conference. Treasurer Maurer
also served on the Executive Committee of the
National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers,
and Treasurers and served on its State/Federal Cash
Management Reform Task Force. She also has held a
number of offices and leadership roles in the Women
Executives in State Government.

Born in New York on November 21, 1922, Ms.
Maurer grew up in Rockland County, New York.
She attended the then Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina and was graduated
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1942 with a degree in Economics. After
working for the U.S. Tariff Commission as an
economist, she received her M.A. in General Studies
from Yale University in 1945. Treasurer Maurer was
awarded the honorary degrees of Doctor of
Humanities by Hood College in 1984, and Doctor
of Humane Letters by the University of Maryland's
University College in 1990.

Treasurer Maurer is a member of many
community organizations, such as the League of
Women Voters. She is the recipient of many honors
and awards from groups, including the Maryland
Association of Boards of Education, Maryland
Association of Counties, Maryland Association for
Retarded Children, and chapters of the Business
and Professional Women, National Organization
for Women, and the American Association of
University Women. In March of 1990, Treasurer
Maurer was inducted into the Maryland Women's
Hall of Fame. In 1989 she received the Judge Sarah
T. Hughes Award for Distinguished Public Service
from Goucher College, and the William G. Baker,
Jr. Memorial Fund Award from the University of
Baltimore's William Donald Schaefer Center for
Public Policy. In 1988, she was awarded the
prestigious Louis B. Brandeis Justice in
Government Award by the American Jewish
Congress. Among many other publications, she is
listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in
American Politics, Who's Who of American Women,
Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century, and
Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans.

Ms. Maurer is married to Ely Maurer, an
Assistant Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department of
State. They have three grown sons: Stephen,
Russell, and Edward.