The Leadership, a program sponsored by the GBC, recently selected 50 Baltimore-area executives from business, non-profit and government to join its Class of 2002. Each member of the class was selected based on professional and volunteer leadership, judgment, civic activity, concern for the community, and potential to help build a better Baltimore.

There were 97 applications submitted to the program this year, breaking last year's record high of 94.

Members of The Leadership Class of 2002 are:

• Robert W. Ahern, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank
  
• Deborah W. Bedwell, Executive Director, Baltimore Clayworks
  
• Roger Birkel, Executive Director, The Baltimore Zoo
  
• Charles F. Black, Executive Vice President, SunTrust Bank
  
• Angelo Boer, Division Director, Community Services, Associated Catholic Charities
  
• James G. Breiner, President/Publisher, Baltimore Business Journal
  
• Robert S. Brennen, Principal, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
  
• Bruce W. Brooks, Vice President of Marketing, Consumer Tools & Accessories, Black & Decker
  
• Gary M. Brooks, Executive Vice President, Baltimore Community Development Financing Corp.
  
• Jacqueline M. Carrera, Executive Director, Parks & People Foundation
  
• Diane L. Caslow, Vice President of Strategic & Business Planning, MedStar Health
  
• Ellington E. Churchill, Administrative Project Manager, Henry H. Lewis Contractors, Inc.
  
• Taylor Classen, Vice President, Ilex Construction & Development, Inc.
  
• Todd M. Cleary, Vice President, T. Rowe Price
  
• Joan Develin Coley, President, Western Maryland College
  
• Sherry D. Collette, Director of Parent Involvement, Baltimore City Public Schools
  
• Gregory A. Cross, Partner, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, LLP
  
• Michael F. Croxson, EVP & Chief Operating Officer, Amerix Corporation
  
• Michael A. Edwards, Vice President, Information Technology, American Skyline Insurance
  
• Janice Frey-Angel, Chief Executive Officer, The League for People with Disabilities, Inc.
  
• Laura Gamble, Senior Vice President/Treasury Management Executive, Bank of America
  
• Susan K. Gauvey, United States Magistrate Judge, District Court of Maryland
  
• Sophie Dagenais Goetz, Partner, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
  
• Toby Gordon, VP of Planning & Marketing, Johns Hopkins Health System
  
• Gary Harkness, Vice President, Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
  
• Marta D. Harting, Partner, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP
  
• Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera, President, University of MD Biotechnology Institute
  
• Edward C. Jackson, Police Major, Baltimore City Police
  
• Deborah J. Jacobs-Rock, Executive Director, Baltimore Pediatric HIV Program, inc.
  
• David M. Jernigan, Senior Vice President/Director Northern Division, Legg Mason
  
• Henry, G. Koether III, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, American Trading & Production Corp.
  
• Brian E. LeGette, President & Chairman, Big Bang Products, Inc.
• Sandra Long, Deputy Secretary, Department of Business and Economic Development
  
• Kent E. Malwitz, Director, effective-e
  
• Vernon Marrow, President & Chief Operating Officer, Legacy Unlimited, LLC
  
• Douglas B. McCoach III, Vice President, RTKL Associates, Inc.
  
• David Mosley, President & Chief Executive Officer, ALD Enterprises, Inc.
  
• Linda Toyo Obayashi, Attorney/Mediator, Miller & Obayashi Mediation, LLC
  
• Tara Linnehan Oursler, Deputy Chief of Staff, Baltimore County Executive Office
• Martin F. Porter, General Manager, Knight Laundromats
• Margaret-Mary V. Preston, Managing Director, CFO Global Private Bank, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown
  
• Robert J. Rhudy, Executive Director, Maryland Legal Services Corp.
  
• Otis Rolley, III, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Housing & Community Dev.
  
• John T. Shano, Partner, KPMG, LLP
  
• Steven S. Sharfstein, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sheppard Pratt Health System
  
• Gwen Skillern, Senior Vice President/General Auditor, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
  
• Scot T. Spencer, Transportation Specialist, Environmental Defense
  
• Marian Stanton, Ph.D., Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs, Sojourner-Douglass College
  
• Courtney B. Wilson, Executive Director, B&O Railroad Museum
  
• Dion V. Wright, Director, Civic Works, Inc.