The Chesapeake Bay Trust was created in 1985 by the Maryland General Assembly as a non-profit grant-making organization with the mission of engaging the citizens of Maryland in efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The Trust’s 19-member Board of Trustees has two ex-officio representatives from the State General Assembly and one each from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), Maryland Department of the Environment (MDA), and Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA). The remaining fourteen members of the Board are appointed by the Governor. 

Chesapeake Bay Trust Board of Trustees 2009

Paul J. Allen
Senior Vice President - Corporate Affairs Division
Constellation Energy Group

Honorable John Astle
Exofficio, Senate

Russell Brinsfield
Executive Director
Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology

Torrey C. Brown, M.D., Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Chairman of the Board, Intralytix, Inc.

Stuart A. Clarke
Executive Director
Town Creek Foundation

Honorable Valerie Ervin
Montgomery County Council

W. Warren Hamel, Esq.
Venable, LLP – Partner

John P. (Jack) Hollerbach, CPA, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees
President & CEO, HarVest Bank of Maryland

Virginia (Ginny) Kearney
Acting Director, Water Management Administration
Maryland Department of the Environment
Exofficio, MDE

Louise Lawrence
Chief, Office of Resource Conservation
Department of Agriculture
Exofficio, MDA – For Doug Scott, Asst. Sec.

Eric Schwaab
Deputy Secretary
MD Dept of Natural Resources
Exofficio, MD DNR

Terence Smith
Journalist

Scot T. Spencer
The Annie E. Casey Foundation

 Lise Van Susteren, M.D.