Board of Directors:

  • Mary Beck, Manager for Montgomery County*s 0ffice of Manaagement and Budget.
  • Jim Brodsky, Chairman of the Board,. Montgomery Housing Partnership and former Chair HOC
  • Dolores Cole, Retired, HOC Resident Services
  • Dr. Stewart Edelstein, Executive Director, University of Maryland Shady Grove
  • Tracee Goode, Director of the Educational Opportunities Center at Montgomery College
  • Barbara Heyman, former President. League of Women Voters
  • Judy Madden, College Summit Educator Training and Development Specialist.
  • Gail Montgomery, Instructional Dean, Montgomery College
  • Tocque Petyon, Resident Services Housing Opportunities Commission
  • Dr. Rodney Redmond, Interim Instructional Dean, Montgomery College
  • Sally Rudney, Director, Montgomery County Community Foundation
  • Nancy Scull, Family Self-Sufficiency, HOC
  • Joyce Siegel, Former Public Affairs Officer, HOC
  • Charles R. Smith, Education Committee Chairman for The Capital Peers
  • Monica Sussman, Partner, Nixon Peabody, LLP.
  • Bernie Tetreault, Past Executive Director of the Housing Opportunities Commission
  • Teresa Wright, Educator

Advisory Committee:
  • Pat Scissors
  • Dr. Nancy Carlson
  • Monica Sussman
  • Dr. Stewart Edelstein
  • Teresa Wright
Board Profiles:

Mary Beck Senior Manager for Montgomery County's 0ffice of Manaagement and Budget. Prior to that, Mary was grants coordinator for the Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC). She served as treasurer of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives DC Chapter and has been honored by the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless. .

Jim Brodsky is a founding member of the Washington, DC law firm of Weiner Brodsky Sidman Kider PC where he concentrates on mortgage, manufactured housing and real estate finance; federal compliance, secondary market transactions; asset purchases and sales, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to entering private practice, he was a Deputy Assistant Secretary with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is Chairman of the Board of the Montgomery Housing Partnership, and a Member of the Housing Opportunities Commission for ten years , serving as its Chair for two years. He also served as Chair of the Washington Area Housing Partnership.

 Barbara Heyman is a former legislative analyst/lobbyist for the Montgomery County government and past president of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County. She serves as co-chair of the Legislative and Public Policy Committee for the Maryland Commission for Women, chair of the Commission's Selection Committee for the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame; board member, CEASEFIRE MARYLAND (formerly known as MAHA, Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse); member, Montgomery County chapter of the Million Mom March, serves on the Lavinia Engle Scholarship board. She is a former board member, Suburban Maryland Fair Housing, was appointed by the County Executive to serve on the County's first Citizens' Housing Advisory Committee, and numerous committees of the Board of Education.

Gail Montgomery has thirty-one years of community college experience, is a leader in higher education, professor, department level administrator, instructional dean for Social Sciences, history, education, health enhancement and physical education. She is familiar with major issues impacting education. and is an advocate for distance education, personnel issues and using technology in classroom teaching. Dr. Montgomery is a recipient of the Montgomery College Outstanding Faculty Service Award and other recognitions.

Judy Madden is Supervisor of School Counseling Services for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). She provides training and program development for the counselors in Montgomery Countyall schools. She was instrumental in designing MCPS's mental health crisis response plan. Judy has served as an elementary school counselor and pupil personnel worker in MCPS and is a passionate advocate for children's social and emotional health, for which she has received numerous awards, including from Montgomery County Mental Health Association, the Montgomery County Youth Work Commission, Montgomery County School Counselors Association, and Maryland Association for Counseling and Development. Judy and her husband, Brian Madden, have three sons, all of whom are MCPS graduates

Nancy Scull has been Coordinator of the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program at HOC since 1993 and she is Secretary . of HOC’s non-profit organization. She is a founding board member of The Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen & Resource Center.

Joyce Siegel’s career includes nine years as an HOC Commissioner and fourteen years as HOC’s Public Affairs Officer. She is past president of the Interfaith Housing Coalition, which provides transitional housing to homeless Montgomery County families. She was recognized as Citizen of the Year by the Sentinel Newspapers and received the Smith College medal for her work in saving and transforming the Scotland community, was Vice President of Am Kolel Judaic Resource Center and board member of Community Ministries of Montgomery County for five years. Joyce was installed into the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame in 2001 and is currently an Associate of the Innovative Housing Institute which promotes economically integrated housing.

Charles R. Smith  has been serving as Education Committee Chairman for The Capital Peers for the past eight years. The Capital Peers provides assistance to needy families and Scholarships to deserving District Of Columbia High School Graduates . He is a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and the Colesville Council of Community Congregations , and several other organizations . Charles is active in his Church choirs and the Trustees Board. He retired from the US Army after twenty years as a Lieutenant Colonel, and from Vitro Corporation after sixteen and a half years as the Corporate Security Manager. 

Bernard Tetreault, for whom The Bernie Scholarship Awards Program was named, served as Executive Director of HOC for twenty-four years. During his tenure, the organization developed from a traditional Public Housing Authority to a multi-tasked Housing Finance Agency, which provided almost $1 billion in housing financing for single family mortgages and multi-family development; owned and managed more than 1,200 scattered site housing units and thousands of mixed income multi-family apartments; and administered the Public Housing and Section 8 programs for Montgomery County. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Housing Conference and was an organizer and past president of the Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies. He is the founder and President of the Innovative Housing Institute and a real estate advisor to the DC Housing Authority helping them develop mixed income communities and revitalize public housing. Bernie is known and respected around the country as a progressive housing innovator for affordable housing.