Maryland will send 31 delegates to the Republican National Convention that begins Monday in Philadelphia. Here's a look at the state's convention representatives. 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BONNIE NELSON LUNA, of Salisbury, is the Lower Shore coordinator of George W. Bush's Maryland campaign and a first-time delegate to the Republican National Convention. A Realtor, Luna also founded the Magi Fund, a volunteer effort that raised $400,000 in the last six years for two Salisbury hunger and homelessness organizations - the Joseph House Center and the Christian Shelter. Luna, who declined to give her age, said she was motivated to campaign for Bush by his vision of "compassionate conservatism" and his ability to connect with the average person. Luna is married. U.S. REP. WAYNE T. GILCHREST, 54, has represented the district since 1990, serving his constituents as chairman of the House subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. He counts environmental protection among his greatest priorities in the work he does on the committee. Gilchrest attended his first Republican convention in 1996, and delivered the state's votes for Bob Dole as chairman of the delegation. Before his tenure in Congress, Gilchrest taught high school history, government and civics. He lives in Kennedyville with his wife and three children. DELEGATE JOHN R. LEOPOLD, 57, will attend his seventh Republican convention this year. Leopold first represented District 31 in the House of Delegates from 1983 to 1990, then recaptured the seat in 1995 after a failed bid for state Senate. Lauded as this year's top legislator by the National Republican Legislators Association, Deputy Minority Whip Leopold recently championed a successful effort to institute charter schools in the state. He also served in the Hawaii Statehouse and on that state's school board in the early 1970s before moving to Maryland. He lives in Pasadena. 2ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT JAMES M. HARKINS, 46, of Whiteford, has been Harford County executive since 1998. Born in Havre de Grace, Harkins graduated from Bel Air Senior High School and earned a degree in criminal justice from Harford Community College in 1987. Employed by the Harford County Sheriff's Department, he attained the rank of sergeant in the administrative services division. He was a member of the House of Delegates from 1991 to 1998. Harkins was a national convention delegate in 1996 and was one of a handful of delegates featured in a convention video. Harkins is married with two children. DELEGATE A. WADE KACH, 53, of Cockeysville, has been a member of the House of Delegates since 1975. He represents District 9A, which encompasses part of Baltimore County, including Hereford and Cockeysville. Born in Baltimore, Kach graduated from Baltimore public schools. He attended Towson State College and earned a bachelor's degree from Western Maryland College in 1970. Kach was a math teacher before his election to the Maryland General Assembly. He was a delegate to the 1988 Republican National Convention. He is married. DELEGATE JAMES F. PORTS JR., 41, of Baltimore, has been a member of the House of Delegates since 1991. He represents District 8, which includes parts of Baltimore and Baltimore County. Born in Baltimore, he attended Perry Hall Senior High School. Ports reached the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served from 1978 to 1982. He earned a two-year degree from Essex Community College. Before his election to the General Assembly, Ports worked for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. He is married with three children. 3RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: RICHARD D. BENNETT, 52, serves as the chairman of the Maryland Republican Party. He will step down in September after serving two years of a four-year term. A George W. Bush delegate, Bennett will attend his third convention this year. He also attended the 1988 and 1996 Republican National Conventions. A resident of Ruxton in Baltimore County, Bennett was elected as a delegate during the 2000 Maryland Republican primary. During the Bush administration, he was the U.S. attorney for Maryland. After leaving that post, he was the 1994 GOP candidate for Maryland attorney general. In 1998, he ran for lieutenant governor. A partner with the law firm of Miles and Stockbridge, Bennett is married with three children. JOSEPH W. BROWN JR., 42, will attend the convention as a Bush delegate. A resident of Baltimore, Brown serves on the Baltimore Republican Central Committee. He was elected as a delegate during the 2000 Maryland Republican primary. Brown is a banking center manager at the Bank of America. Married with two children, this will be his first convention. BOYD KEVIN RUTHERFORD, 43, will attend his first convention. A resident of Columbia, Rutherford sits on the Republican Central Committee of Howard County and was elected as a Bush delegate during the 2000 Maryland Republican primary. A former attorney, Rutherford operates a placement service for lawyers and paralegals in Washington. He is married with three children. 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MICHELLE RIPPLE, 43, is a special events planner from Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County. This will be Ripple's first convention. She is a member of the central committee for Prince George's County. Ripple said she is looking forward to "the entire experience." PATRICIA FAULKNER, 55, was a House Delegate in state District 14A from 1994- 1998. She is the director of administration and operations for Capital University of Integrated Medicine in Washington. The school provides a post graduate program which combines the study of traditional and alternative medicine. Faulkner lives in Burtonsville and is the Third Vice Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party. This will be her third convention and her second as a delegate. MICHAEL STEELE, 41, of Largo, is a rising star in the Maryland Republican Party. He is the First Vice Chairman of the state party, and is running for the chairmanship. He has been chairman of the Prince George's Republican Party since 1994. Steele owns his own business, the Steele/Barnes Group, for which he does attorney consulting. He consults with businesses on political, financial and legal issues. This will be his third convention and his second as a delegate. 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ROBERT DUCKWORTH, 59, of Crofton, left his hometown of Philadelphia as a paperboy and Boy Scout, and will be returning there a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Duckworth will be going tohis second consecutive national convention representing Maryland's 5th Congressional District.Two terms as a convention delegate are a small part of his career in public service, which include working for the Department of Housing and Urban Development for 18 years, and working for a Republican research committee on Washington's Capitol Hill. Duckworth began his political career in 1990 with an unsuccessful run for Congress. In 1994, he won the election for Anne Arundel clerk of court, and in 1998 was re-elected. Duckworth is a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, and received his bachelor's degree in political philosophy and master's degree in urban planning from Catholic University. He says his marriage of 33 years to Annette is the crowning achievement of his life. The Duckworths' have a daughter Karen, 29, who is a physician in West Virginia, and a son Rob, 31, who is an architect in Owings Mills. DELEGATE ANTHONY O'DONNELL, 39, of Lusby, will attend his second consecutive convention this year: he was elected as an alternate in 1996, but served as a regular delegate when another member of the group went home for a medical emergency. O'Donnell was born in Harrisburg, Pa., went to high school in Middletown, Pa., and served in the Navy from 1979 to 1987. He received a bachelor's degree from Regents College, State University of New York, in 1985, and has worked for several years at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant where he is an engineering analyst. O'Donnell has been a state delegate since 1995, after a seat representing Calvert and part of St. Mary's county was created through reapportionment. He serves on the Judiciary Committee, and is also a member of the Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy. O'Donnell has been married for 18 years and has three children, ages 18, 16 and 11. AUDREY SCOTT, 64, the former Bowie mayor,will be going to her sixth consecutive Republican National Convention as a delegate next week in Philadelphia. Just like her first convention in 1980, this year she was elected as a delegate for a candidate named George Bush. This time, her candidate is expected to be the nominee. In 1980, George Bush was beaten for the nomination by Ronald Reagan. Her involvement in the Republican Party is actually longer, and includes working for all the presidential campaigns since Gerald Ford's, and several prominent state Republicans like former U.S. Sen. Charles "Mac" Mathias. She is currently the Southern Maryland coordinator for the Bush campaign and the state party's woman appointee to the Republican Party's rules committee. She is also the rally chairman for the convention, which means she's in charge of how and when the state delegations can respond during floor events at the convention. Scott is a Boston-area native, and a 1957 English graduate of Tufts University. She taught school overseas for several years for the State Department's school system. She was married in 1962 and returned to Bowie in 1966. Scott began her lengthy political career as a Bowie City Council member, and was elected mayor in 1976. In 1980, she was a Reagan appointee to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Scott was elected to the Prince George's County Council in 1994, the only Republican on the council and the first Republican in 28 years. Scott and her husband John have four sons and one grandson, all of Maryland. 6TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SCOTT L. ROLLE, 39, of Frederick, was born in Washington and spent his early years in Bethesda. Rolle graduated from the University of Dayton after attending Georgetown Prep, and went to Ohio Northern University's law school. Rolle has worked as a whitewater rafting guide in Harper's Ferry for about 12 years, through law school and college and still guides trips on some summer weekends. He was Frederick County assistant state's attorney and chief narcotics prosecutor from 1987 to 1991, and has been the Frederick County state's attorney since 1994. Rolle teaches criminal law one night a week at Mount St. Mary's College. Rolle was an alternate delegate in 1996, and was a member of the Republican Central Committee from 1990 to 1994. He has worked on every Republican's presidential campaign since 1980. He has appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" and "Burden of Proof" and on Court TV. Rolle is married with three children. CHARLES A. JOHNSON, 46, of Cumberland, is a District 6 delegate. He is the director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and chairman of the Allegany County Republican Central Committee. He has an associate of arts in labor studies from Dundalk Community College. He was an elector in the District 6 electoral college for the 1996 election. His first national convention was in 1972 when he was an 18-year-old member of the Young Voters for the President. He has been a party volunteer for 30 years working with national, state and local campaigns. He said he is paying his own way to the convention. STATE SEN. CHRISTOPHER J. MCCABE, 44, was born in Encino, Calif., and now lives in Clarksville. He is the District 14 state senator and is the senior development officer for Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. McCabe received his bachelor's degree from Notre Dame and his master's in business administration afronm Fairleigh-Dickinson University. He was an at-large delegate to the 1996 convention and a District 3 alternate in 1984. He is on the Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, the Governor's Adoption Oversight Committee and the Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee in the Senate. He is a member of Marylanders Against Casinos. He was only one of two white senators in the state to vote against the expulsion of Larry Young in 1998 for ethics violations, saying he needed more time to study the issue. McCabe is married with four children. 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT KELLY M. DREHOFF, 35, is attending her first convention, but has been involved with Maryland's Republican Party for 10 years. The Catonsville resident managed her husband Don's 1994 campaign for the Maryland House of Delegates and, in 1998, was a staff member of Ellen Sauerbrey's gubernatorial campaign. Drehoff now works as the executive administrator at Montgomery County GOP headquarters and is the secretary of the Maryland Young Republicans and a member of the Women's Republican Federation. She is a delegate for George W. Bush. VICTOR CLARK JR., 55, will attend his sixth convention since 1980, and his fifth as a delegate. A native of Baltimore, he is chairman of the city's Republican Central Committee. From 1986 to 1998 he was the vice-chairman of the Maryland Republican Party. Clark has been the Republican candidate in several Baltimore area political races, including the 1995 mayoral election. Last year, he ran for Baltimore City Council. Clark is a sales consultant with a Baltimore automotive group. He is a Bush delegate. ANTHONY D. COBB lives and works in Baltimore. He is part of the senior management staff at the National Federation of the Blind, where he has been employed since 1986. From 1985-86 Cobb was the staff director for the minority caucus of the Iowa House of Representatives. Prior to that, he held positions at the Iowa Commission for the Blind and the Tennessee School for the Blind. Cobb has a bachelor's in English from Vanderbelt University, a master's in English from Middle Tennessee State University and a master of public administration from Drake University. As a delegate, he is supporting George W. Bush. 8TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT STATE SEN. PATRICK "P.J." HOGAN, 37, lives in Gaithersburg and represents the 39th Senate District. During his first term, Hogan was mentioned prominently as a possible running mate for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ellen Sauerbrey, but took himself out of contention to run for a second Senate term in 1998. His committee assignments include Budget and Taxation and he has been active on such issues as high technology, business tax exemption for computer software, transportation trust fund distribution formula, higher education funding and issues relating to persons with developmental disabilities. From 1990 to 1994, Hogan served as legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Connie Morella, R-Bethesda, and before that was the owner of a retail sporting goods business. Hogan runs a home-based computer consulting firm. e is married to Jacqueline P. Hogan, and has an 8-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son. NANCY DACEK, 66, lives in Germantown and is a Montgomery County councilwoman. She was elected to the County Council in 1990 and re-elected in 1994 and 1998. She serves on the council Education and Public Safety Committees and is the lead person for fire/rescue and animal control matters. In 1988, Dacek was co- chairman of District 15 Bush for President and, in 1992, she was the Montgomery County co-chairman. She was the president of the Winston Churchill High School PTSA from 1978-80 and 1985-86, and was the president of Montgomery County Council of PTAs from 1983-85. Dacek earned a bachelor's in political science from Wellesley College and a master's in education from Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland. She is married to Raymond F. Dacek, has four daughters, one son and six grandchildren. DELEGATE JEAN B. CRYOR, 61, lives in Potomac and represents District 15 in the Maryland House of Delegates. Cryor began her first term in 1995, was re-elected in 1998 and serves on the Ways and Means Committee. Formerly an editor and publisher of the Gazette Newspapers, she has lived in Potomac since she moved from Philadelphia in 1972. In 1993, Cryor won first prize for investigative reporting from the Maryland Society of Professional Journalists. She is a previous winner of the Almanac newspaper's Citizen of the Year award and has been named businessperson of the year by the Potomac Chamber of Commerce. Cryor earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in business administration from Loyola College. She is widowed and has three adult daughters and one grandchild. AT-LARGE DELEGATES ELLEN R. SAUERBREY, 63, served northern Baltimore County in the Maryland House of Delegates for 16 years. While in office, she was the House minority leader and introduced legislation that created jobs, cut taxes, and fought crime. She also was the prime sponsor of the Maryland Spending Affordability Law. Sauerbrey stepped down in 1994 to wage the first of two consecutive gubernatorial campaigns against Gov. Parris Glendening and is now a Republican national committeewoman. Sauerbrey, a native of Baltimore, graduated from Towson Senior High School and Western Maryland College. She and her husband live on a small farm in Sweet Air. LOUIS POPE, 49, of North Laurel, is a real estate broker and owner of Century 21 Trademark Realty in Greenbelt. He was elected the second vice chairman of the Maryland Republican Party in December 1998. He has also been chairman of the Howard County Republican Central Committee for the last seven years. He was an alternate delegate in the last two Republican conventions. He was chairman of the Dole-Kemp campaign for Howard County in the 1996 election. This year he supports Bush, although he preferred former GOP presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole to Dick Chaney as vice presidential nominee. RICHARD TAYLOR, 71, is a lawyer at Steptoe and Johnson in Washington. He has been the Maryland Republican Party National Committeeman since 1983. He has been an at-large delegate to all the GOP conventions since 1984. He was a Ronald Reagan supporter in the 1980s and now he backs Bush. He said Chaney is a good pick for vice president, but his first choice was former U.S. Rep. Bill Paxon, R-N.Y. Taylor is a member of the convention rules committee, as he has been since his first convention. DELEGATE DON MURPHY, 40, is a Catonsville native who grew up in Linthicum. Now back in Catonsville, he was elected to the House of Delegates in 1995 and holds seats on the Judiciary Committee and the civil law and procedure subcommittee. He is a mortgage banker for Columbia Mortgage. Originally a McCain delegate, he now supports Bush. SANDY BROCK, 55, is a Virginia native who now hails from Annapolis. She is president of SMD, a design consulting firm she has operated for 10 years. This is her first convention as a delegate, although she has been to others. She is chairman and co-founder of Maryland's Youth Team 2000 for George W. Bush. She is the wife of former U.S. Senator William E. Brock, who also served as Republican National Committee chairman, U.S. trade representative and secretary of labor. They have six children and 13 grandchildren. MARILYN DANKNER, 52, is from Potomac. She is chairwoman of the Maryland Federation of Republican Women, a non-paying position. She also sits on the board of the Parents Council of Washington, Inc. She is pledged for George W. Bush. MICHELLE DUFFY, 40, is chairwoman of the Baltimore County Republican Party. She has held that position since 1998. She lives in Baltimore County and works for Baltimore Gas and Electric in information technology. She is pledged for Bush in Philadelphia, which is her first convention.

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