Constituent area includes South Bowie, Capitol Heights, District Heights,
Forestville, Kettering, Largo, Mitchellville, and Upper Marlboro.
Council Member Samuel H. Dean was overwhelmingly reelected in November 2006,
to a second four-year term on the Council by 99-percent of the voters in
District 6. He was first elected to the Council, winning 93-percent of the
vote, in November 2002. Council Member Dean represents the nearly 110,000
citizens residing in the District 6 communities of South Bowie, Capitol
Heights, District Heights, Forestville, Kettering, Largo, Mitchellville, and
Upper Marlboro.
Recognized for his strong leadership ability, Council Member Dean was twice
elected Council Chairman by his colleagues, serving in that capacity during
Legislative Year 2005, and again in Legislative Year 2008. The second term
as Chairman in 2008, filled the vacancy left by the resignation of former
Chairman David C. Harrington, following his appointment to the State Senate.
Council Member Dean served as Council Vice-Chairman in Legislative Year
2004. During his second term as Council Chairman, he was a leading member of
the County’s visiting presentation team with the County Executive to the New
York bond rating houses, resulting for the first time in the County’s
history in a Triple A Bond Rating.
For the 2010 Legislative Year, Council Member Dean serves as Chairman of the
Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee (PZED), a position he
has held for three of his seven years on the Committee; member of the Public
Safety and Fiscal Management Committee (PSFM), member of the Council Budget
Process Committee; member of Rules, General Assembly and Committee of the
Whole (COW), Council Representative and Liaison to the Board of Education,
member of the Board of Directors, Economic Development Committee, Board
Member of the Prince George’s Community College Foundation; and alternate
Council Representative to the Dimensions Healthcare System. He is an
Advisory Board Member of Envision, a community visioning project sponsored
by the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC). Mr.
Dean chaired the Council’s Blue Ribbon Committee on the High School
Assessment examinations that study and made recommendations to the State
Board of Education on the potential impact of the examinations on County
students. Council Member Dean has served on every Council standing committee
during his tenure, and chaired the Transportation, Housing and The
Environment Committee (THE) Committee during first year on the Council.
In
the 12 years prior to his election to the County Council, Mr. Dean served as
a civic leader and activist in many Council-related areas, e.g., chaired the
Council’s Redistricting Committee as the selectee of the County Council, and
was a member of the 202 Corridor Studies. He was also Co-Founder,
Mitchellville-Largo-Kettering Education Coalition. Mr. Dean has been
recipient of many awards, such as The Governor’s Citation for Outstanding
Volunteer Service (Governor
Parris N. Glendening, State of Maryland);
as "Volunteer of the Year," by Prince George's County, and the Prince
George's County School Board, respectively, and the Honorary Community Image
Award, NAACP Prince George's
County Chapter.
Mr. Dean is a United States Air Force veteran who served our country for a
decade. Mr. Dean retired from the Federal Government as the Deputy
Director, Office Human Resources, United States Equal Employment
Opportunities Commission (EEOC). He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Management and Technology from the University of Maryland, University
College, in College Park.
Council Member Dean is an Honorary Life Member of the prestigious
International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR)
and received its highest honor, the Warren W. Stockberger Achievement Award
in 2000. He also received the
Gladys Noon Spellman Memorial Award, Prince George's County Chapter, IPMA.
Mr. Dean is a past president of the Eastern Region of IPMA, and formerly
served on the Executive Committee.
Council Member Dean is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the historic,
144-year old Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, D. C. Mr. Dean is
a member of The American Legion, a Master Mason, Prince Hall Masons, and is
a Charter Member and Distinguished past secretary of the Kiwanis Club of
Mitchellville, Inc.
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Dean has been a resident of Prince
George's County since 1975. He resides in Mitchellville with his wife,
Donna. They have two children, and two grandchildren.
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