{"id":8051,"date":"2015-09-04T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2016-02-01T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:36:24","slug":"secretary-holt-announces-ellington-churchill-jr-as-new-deputy-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2015\/09\/04\/secretary-holt-announces-ellington-churchill-jr-as-new-deputy-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Holt Announces Ellington Churchill Jr. As New Deputy Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/09\/ellington-churchill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/09\/ellington-churchill.jpg\" alt=\"ellington-churchill\" width=\"250\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Secretary Ellington Churchill, Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b>N<\/b><b>ew Carrollton, MD<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Secretary Kenneth C. Holt today announced the appointment of Ellington Churchill, Jr. as the department\u2019s deputy secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill has more than two decades experience as a construction and real estate development professional and will assist Secretary Holt in providing leadership and oversight in the development of the state\u2019s housing finance, asset management, community development and building code programs.Churchill is active in the community and serves on the board of directors for Outward Bound Baltimore, Arundel Community Development Services, and Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEllington\u2019s 20 years of hands-on experience in the real estate development industry in Maryland brings a broad range of leadership skills and business development expertise to DHCD,\u201d said Secretary Holt. \u201cHe will be an important asset to the Hogan administration and the department in implementing housing and community development solutions to change Maryland for the better.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Churchill most recently served as director of business development for Lewis Contractors, a family-owned mid-Atlantic commercial general contractor and construction management firm. Churchill was responsible for leading construction management, general contracting and design build project opportunities for the firm. He also developed marketing strategies to gain key construction market penetration to maintain Lewis\u2019 profit margins and forecasted construction volume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with Secretary Holt and the team at DHCD in their mission to revitalize communities and provide affordable housing opportunities throughout the state,\u201d said Churchill.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill began his career in 1994 as the project manager and estimator with Lewis Contractors. In 2006, he joined Liberty Project Trust as a senior project manager before coming back to Lewis Contractors in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in architecture and a master\u2019s degree in construction management \u00a0from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill lives in Windsor Mills with his wife, Shareese, and two daughters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Carrollton, MD\u00a0\u2013 Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Secretary Kenneth C. Holt today announced the appointment of Ellington Churchill, Jr. as the department\u2019s deputy secretary. Churchill has more than two decades experience as a construction and real estate development professional and will assist Secretary Holt in providing leadership and oversight in the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2015\/09\/04\/secretary-holt-announces-ellington-churchill-jr-as-new-deputy-secretary\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","category-staff-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8549,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}