Susan Hoffmann has been working for Rockville for the last 13 years. In November 2007, she was elected to her first term as Mayor. She was first elected as a Rockville councilmember in November 2001. Prior to her service on the Rockville City Council, Susan served five years on the Rockville Planning Commission.
Susan is a member of the Montgomery County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League (MML), and serves on the MML Legislative Committee. She is active with the Washington Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (COG), where she serves on the Board of Directors and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. She also is a member of the Community and Economic Development Committee of the National League of Cities.
Susan has always been a strong supporter of environmental issues and campaigned for mayor advocating for a “Clean and Green Rockville.” As mayor, she has continued championing the fight against climate change and is an active proponent of Rockville’s Sustainable Strategy. Hoffmann also continues her strong advocacy for the arts. During her terms as a Rockville councilmember, she served as the head of a task force that worked to develop a policy requiring developers to include funding for art in new projects. In 2004, her leadership helped formulate Public Art in Private Development. She also has worked to adopt regulations that would require the undergrounding of utility wires and equipment. Most recently, she served as one of the Mayor and Council representatives on Representatives of Rockville Zoning Ordinance Review (RORZOR), which has been working on rewriting the City’s zoning ordinance.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Susan's professional career includes her current position as the marketing and communications manager of the Silver Spring Regional Services Center (SSRSC), the office providing local government services for the Silver Spring and Takoma Park region. The SSRSC includes the Silver Spring Redevelopment Office that established the implementation and monitoring of the redevelopment and revitalization of downtown Silver Spring. She collaborates daily with the development team, governmental agencies, and key private participants such as the American Film Institute and Discovery Communications, Inc.
Susan joined Montgomery County in December 1986 as a Legislative Analyst in the Montgomery County Office of Intergovernmental Relations representing the County's interests before the Maryland General Assembly, the Governor, and the State Agencies staff. Beyond her day-to-day responsibilities, she:
- was appointed by the County Executive to serve on the Montgomery County Task Force to study the Municipal Tax Duplication Reimbursement Program.
- produced, wrote and hosted "Eye on Annapolis," a weekly cable television program on the Maryland General Assembly.
FORMERLY:
Congressional Aide to two members of U.S. House of Representatives
Public Affairs Assistant to the 1980 White House Conference on Families
Feature Writer with Bucks County Courier/Doylestown Intelligencer,
suburban Philadelphia dailies.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science degree in Communications, Temple
University.
Post-graduate: Basic Economic Development Course, University College, University
of Maryland.
MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES [current and former]
- Member of newly established Council of Government Climate, Energy &Environment Policy Committee
- Commissioner [five years] and chair, Rockville Planning Commission
- City-to-City Task Force between Rockville and Baltimore
- Member and former Board of Directors, West End Civic Association
- Rockville Little Theatre
- First Vice President of the National Capital Chapter, American ORT
- Board member, Montgomery County Conference and Visitors Bureau
- Montgomery County Government Quarterly Leadership Forum Member
- Silver Spring Stage Advisory Council
- Member, Maryland Downtown Development Association
- Member, Urban Land Institute
- Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce
- Former Commissioner, Maryland Commission for Women
- Past PAC Chair and Board Member, Maryland Women's Political Caucus
- Maryland Government Relations Association, charter member
- Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
- Temple Emanuel: Member, Board of Trustees; Chair, Cultural Arts Committee; Member, Arts @ Emanuel, Social Issues, and GreenSholom [environmental] Committees and Adult Choir
- Communications Director, Doug Duncan for Executive Campaign, 1993-94
- Past President, Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents [RICA] Association
- Former Board Member, Round House Theatre
- Candidate, Maryland House of Delegates, 1990, District 17
- Suburban Hospital Advisory Council
- Vice-President, District of Columbia Special Olympics