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BRIG. GEN. JAMES A. ADKINS, Adjutant General & Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Office of Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
Jeffrey Building, 4th floor, 16 Francis St., Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 260-3838; 1-866-793-1577 (toll free); fax: (410) 216-7928
e-mail: jadkins@mdva.state.md.us
web: www.mdva.state.md.us
Secretary of Veterans Affairs since May 16, 2007. Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, May 9-16, 2007. Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2004-2006 (acting deputy secretary, 2003-04).
Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2007-; Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs, 2007-; State Coordinating Committee for Human Services Transportation, 2007-; Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee, 2008-; Veterans Behavioral Health Advisory Board, 2008-. Chair, Governor's Commission on Military Monuments, 2008- (member, 2007-).
Member, Task Force to Study State Assistance to Veterans, 2007-08; Commission on the Establishment of a Maryland Women in Military Service Monument, 2007-08.
Born in Cambridge, Maryland, May 1, 1954. University of the State of New York, B.A. (sociology), 1984; Washington College, M.A. (history), 1991. Served in U.S. Army/Maryland National Guard, 1975-1997 (legion of merit; maryland distinguished service cross; order of the white cross, republic of estonia). Graduate, Defense Language Institute (russian), 1976; U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, 1987; U.S. Army War College, 1996. Chair, Board of Trustees, James B. Richardson Foundation & Museum, 2003-04. Board of Trustees, Dorchester County Historical Society, 2003-06. Community Association Committee, Dorchester General Hospital, 2005-. Board of Directors, Terrapin Institute, 2005-.
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