For nearly 20 years, Susan Hoffmann has been an active Rockville citizen, involving herself in many important aspects of the community. Susan’s vast experience professionally and as a working mother has earned her great respect from her peers and colleagues, which gives her the ability to get things done for Rockville residents.
In November 2001, Susan was elected to the City Council and is currently serving her second term. During her tenure on the Mayor and Council, Councilwomen Hoffmann has been an influential advocate for Rockville citizens and often has used her strong leadership to advance policies beneficial to the community. Susan has been a strong advocate of cultural arts. She served as head of the task force that resolved many issues among all stakeholders in the development of a policy that would require builders of new developments in Rockville to include funds for art that would enhance the appearance of the City. Her leadership helped formulate the policy that the Mayor and Council in 2004 adopted concerning Public Art in Private Development. She also has aggressively urged the City to adopt regulations that would require the under grounding of utility wires and equipment.
Susan is a member of the Montgomery County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League. She is active with the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments, serving on the Metropolitan Development Policy Committee and the Chesapeake Bay Quality Committtee. She also is a member of the Community and Economic Development Committee of the National League of Cities.
Since August 1995, Susan has been the manager of marketing and communications in the Silver Spring Regional Services Center, the local source of government services for the Silver Spring/Takoma Park Region. The Center includes the Silver Spring Redevelopment Office, established to implement and monitor the redevelopment and revitalization of downtown Silver Spring as a "town center." She collaborates daily with the development team, governmental agencies, and other key private sector players such as the American Film Institute and Discovery Communications, Inc.
In December 1986, Susan joined Montgomery County as a legislative analyst in its Office of Intergovernmental Relations. She represented 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
Susan's past experience includes tenures as a Congressional Aide to two members of U.S. House of Representatives; a public affairs assistant to the 1980 White House Conference on Families; and a feature writer with Bucks County Courier/Doylestown Intelligencer (a suburban Philadelphia daily).
Susan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Temple University and has done post-graduate work in Basic Economic Development through the University of Maryland's University College.
Susan's membership and activities (current and former) include:
- 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] Assn.
- 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
Susan has lived with her family in the West End of Rockville since 1988. She is the proud mother of a daughter and a son, and grandmother of two wonderful grandsons.