State Ag Department Honors Employees with Service Awards

ANNAPOLIS, MD  – The Maryland Department of Agriculture today honored 52 employees for their years of dedicated service to the department and to the state. Of the 52 employees being honored – 14 have 30 or more years of service and four of those individuals have more than 40 years. All together, these 52 employees represent 865 years of public service and nearly 1.8 million hours worked and more than 22,000 paychecks.

“Our department and the agriculture community are fortunate to have such dedicated and knowledgeable personnel working to strengthen the State of Maryland and this agency each and every day,” said Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder. “Our staff plays a major role in protecting consumers and the environment and ensuring fairness in the marketplace. It is a true testament to the value of our work that many of the employees honored this year have been with department since its earliest years.”

The following is a listing of department employees by their county of residence who were recognized with service awards.

Photos are available on the department’s Flickr page.

Allegany

• Mona Lee, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Cumberland

Anne Arundel

• Carol Reynolds, Food Quality Assurance, 40 years, Arnold
• Bonita Sims, Resource Conservation, 35 years, Pasadena
• Dianne Dorsey, Animal Health, 25 years, Annapolis
• Elvira Aisquith, Fiscal Services, 20 years, Millersville
• Jason Keppler, Resource Conservation, 20 years, Glen Burnie
• Luzviminda Ramallosa, State Chemist, 20 years, Annapolis
• Craig Nielsen, Attorney General, 40 years, Annapolis
• Susanne Wagner, Turf and Seed, 20 years, Annapolis
• Louise Woodruff, Nutrient Management, 10 years, Annapolis

Baltimore City

• Ricky Boldissar, Turf and Seed, 10 years, Baltimore

Baltimore County

• Alec Loranca, Food Quality Assurance, 5 years, Upperco
• Jared Wagner, Resource Conservation, 10 years, Sparks 

Calvert

• Barbara Miller, Weights and Measures, 35 years, Lusby
• Judy McGowan, Nutrient Management, 15 years, Dunkirk
• Patricia Gitlin, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Owings

Caroline

• Charles Cawley, Fiscal Services, 5 years, Denton
• Kathleen Hall, Weights and Measures, 10 years, Federalsburg
• Alison Taylor, Resource Conservation 10 years, Federalsburg
• William Lyons, Food Quality Assurance, 5 years, Greensboro

Carroll

• Melissa Foster, Animal Health, 10 years, Hampstead
• Mitchell LeMuiex, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Westminster

Cecil

• Steven Connelly, Marketing, Animal Industries and Consumer Services, 5 years, Rising Sun

Charles

• Stephen Lehrter, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Waldorf

Dorchester

• Nancy Chapman, Animal Health, 10 years, Cambridge
• Catherine Scott, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Rhodesdale

Frederick

• Terry Coblentz, Resource Conservation, 30 years, Taneytown
• Susanna Whitfield, Animal Health, 5 years, Myersville

Howard

• Dennis Howard, Pesticide Regulation, 40 years, Elkridge
• Donald Mason, Weights and Measures, 35 years, Columbia
• Tom Phillips, State Chemist 15 years, Columbia
• Virginia Pierce-Allnutt, Animal Health, 15 years, Glenwood

Montgomery

• Paul Meyer, Resource Conservation, 30 years, Clarksburg
• Kevin Lee, State Chemist, 5 years. North Potomac

Prince George’s

• Robert Trumbule, Plant Protection and Weed Management, 30 years, Greenbelt

Queen Anne’s

• Susan Shepard, Animal Health, 35 years, Centreville
• Kimberly Hoxter, Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, 10 years, Centreville

Somerset

• Kevin Keenan, Resource Conservation, 30 years, Westover

St. Mary’s

• Jerel Spence, Resource Conservation, 10 years, Bushwood
• Molly Gillingham, Food Quality Assurance, 5 years, Lexington Park

Talbot

• Stephen Spielman, Resource Conservation, 30 years, Easton
• Howard Callahan, Sr., Nutrient Management, 25 years, Cordova

Washington

• John Hartman, Weights and Measures, 5 years, Clear Spring

Wicomico

• Karen Hoy, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Quantico

Other

• Cheryl Cook, Food Quality Assurance, 15 years, Smyna, Delaware
• Lynn Alexander-Kuhn, Forest Pest Management, 30 years, Airville, Pennsylvania
• Ben Cooper, Resource Conservation, 30 years, Wellersburg, Pennsylvania
• Bryan Harris, Nutrient Management, 15 years, Glenville, Pennsylvania
• Luke Mudd, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Oak Grove, Virginia
• Byron Petrauskas, Resource Conservation, 5 years, Woodbridge, Virginia

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