The Baltimore Sun is proud to announce the induction of 12 men and women into our Civic and Business Hall of Fame. This year's group will be honored in a special section of The Sun and at an induction dinner in early June. Here are this year's honorees.
When Robert C. Embry Jr. left Baltimore for college, he almost didn’t come back. He thought he would go into the foreign service (and was recruited at Williams College for the CIA), and he went so far as to study the Middle East in graduate school at Harvard. But somewhere along the way, he looked...
People would be lucky to have their spouses talk about them the way John B. Frisch does about Miles & Stockbridge. He landed a summer associate job with Miles & Stockbridge in 1982, after his second year at the University of Maryland School of Law. He’s still there, as chairman emeritus, every...
Every time Larry Gibson thinks he’s left the political game for good, he somehow gets pulled back in. A few years ago, it was a presidential campaign in Madagascar. Most recently, he found himself signing onto a letter along with hundreds of other former federal prosecutors who asserted that if...
When Sandy Hillman’s husband told her they would be moving to Baltimore, she thought her life was over. After graduating from Penn State, she had moved to New York and got a job in publishing, working with legendary magazine editor Barbara Tober. A couple of years later, she and her husband, attorney...
Most everyone who has worked at T. Rowe Price with Brian C. Rogers, the respected fund manager and former chief investment officer who retired as chairman earlier this year, tells the same story about him. Perhaps it’s because the moment was so revealing of his character. It took place in the fall...
Not long after a 33-year-old Baltimore lawyer declared his candidacy for the Maryland House of Delegates, The Sun’s editorial board looked the political newcomer over and decided he might amount to something someday. Calling his a “candidacy of more than routine interest,” The Sun decided that...
For many who live in Baltimore, Kurt L. Schmoke may be the closest thing to a genuine hometown hero they have ever elected to public office. A star football player for City College who went on to Yale University, became a Rhodes Scholar and earned his law degree from Harvard, the West Baltimore...
After a long career in higher education, Mary Pat Seurkamp felt ready for the challenge of a college presidency. She consulted mentors, made connections and got herself on the radar of head hunters and started looking around for institutions where she thought she might be a good fit. When she first...
The Jewish phrase Tikkun Olam means to repair the world through acts of kindness. It’s a concept Leonard and Roslyn Stoler say they model their life on. After achieving financial success from a chain of automobile dealerships, the Stevenson residents and owners of Len Stoler Automotive Group have...
Retired businessman Otis Warren Jr. is stubborn and proud of it. He doesn’t take no for an answer or let anyone tell him he can’t do something. This steely bull-headedness helped him break barriers in Baltimore’s exclusive real estate and development world where often times there seemed to be no...
He’s been asked to give commencement speeches, awarded two honorary doctorate degrees and hailed by the Writers Guild of America, the British Film Institute and the French minister of culture. And now, with John Waters’ induction into The Baltimore Sun’s Business and Civic Hall of Fame, the transformation...
From a diverse and accomplished pool of nominees, The Sun has selected 11 men and women for the 2018 class of its Maryland Business and Civic Hall of Fame. This year’s group, which includes pioneers in the law, finance, business, technology and philanthropy, will profiled in a special section of...
Welcome to the third edition of our annual Baltimore Sun Business and Civic Hall of Fame. The Sun’s Hall of Fame recognizes career achievements of selected Maryland leaders. Our editorial board collaborated with business and community leaders as well as with past Hall of Fame inductees to choose...
The Baltimore Sun celebrates its 2018 Hall of Fame class of business and civic leaders. (Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun video)
Norman R. Augustine isn’t just one of the most successful CEOs in Maryland history, he’s not just an engineer who served as undersecretary of the U.S. Army or rose through the ranks to head Martin Marietta and then oversee its “merger of equals” to become Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense...
Former Gov. Parris N. Glendening remembers clearly the day when he met with Robert M. Bell in an out-of-the-way Carroll County diner to discreetly discuss Judge Bell’s future as Maryland’s first African American chief judge of the Court of Appeals. Politically, it was a tough call. Some lawmakers...
Ten years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield was under siege. The nonprofit health insurer launched more than seven decades earlier had been eyed suspiciously since 2003, when its leadership tried to convert it to a for-profit and sell it at the bargain basement price of $1.3 billion in a deal...
Leaders in Baltimore’s black business community started talking about creating their own bank at least as far back as the early 1970s, realizing the potential for an institution that could help finance businesses and mortgages for people who had been traditionally shut out of banks. But making...
This marks the second annual Baltimore Sun Business and Civic Hall of Fame edition, an effort we launched last year to recognize the career achievements of leaders throughout Maryland.
Everybody in Maryland knows Barbara Mikulski, Baltimore's warrior for the working class. Her rise from Highlandtown social worker and community activist to political glass ceiling buster as a five-term U.S. senator (setting the record as longest-serving woman in the Senate as well as the first...
Hanging in the lobby of David Cordish's office is a framed ledger his grandfather used to record the monthly rent payments on the apartments he owned near what is now Mondawmin Mall. It's a reminder both of just how deep Mr. Cordish's family roots run in the real estate business and of just how...
To call George Russell Jr. a pioneering African-American lawyer is entirely warranted. He is a man of notable firsts — first black Circuit Court judge in Maryland, first black city solicitor of Baltimore, first credible black mayoral candidate in the city, first black appeals court judge in the...
Henry A. Rosenberg Jr. can't recall giving much serious thought to living anywhere but Maryland, which is good news given his family's lasting impact on the Baltimore region. He was born into wealth — he's a direct descendent of the Blaustein family, the Linthuanian immigrants who founded the American...
Lainy LeBow-Sachs remembers the moment her life changed. She saw a flyer for someone who was running to be the city's next mayor. Her children in school, the Massachusetts native was interested in getting a job, but her professional experience was limited to a two-year stint as a second-grade teacher...