Town Council

The Town Council is responsible for making all of the legislative decisions that affect the Town. They are elected each May, and serve for two year terms, with two seats being filled one year, and three the next. The Council serves in an unpaid capacity. Each Councilmember donates many hours per year helping to ensure that the Town runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible. They meet once a month, in public, to discuss Town business and policy. Agendas and minutes from those meetings are available online and in the Town Office. In addition to these public meetings, each Councilmember serves as a liaison to at least one Town Committee and has many other public service interests.

Linna Barnes
Mayor
Term expires 2009
email: lbarnes@townofchevychase.org
7112 RIDGEWOOD AVENUE
 
Linna Barnes has lived in the Town with her husband, Chris Mixter, and their two daughters for almost 20 years. She was an original member of the Preservation and Planning Committee and also served on the Community Outreach and 75th Anniversary Committees. Currently, she chairs the Town's Construction Committee. A non-practicing attorney, Linna produces a television program on Channel 21 and is active in many Montgomery County organizations such as the League of Women Voters, the Commission on Children and Youth, the Committee for Montgomery, and the Collaboration Council. She was PTA President at Rosemary Hills, B-CC Cluster Coordinator, and President of the Montgomery County Council of PTAs. She is now on the B-CC HS PTA and MCCPTA Boards. Linna has worked for legal services and various non-profit organizations. She received degrees from the University of Georgia, Duke University Law School, and the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 
 

Rob Enelow
Vice Mayor
Term expires 2009
email: renelow@townofchevychase.org
4500 LELAND STREET
 
Rob has lived in the Town for five years, with his wife Amy, their children Nat, Leah and Molly (ages 11, 8 and 4) and their three dogs Hoss, Sadie, and Chance. Rob has been an active member of the Traffic committee, and actively involved in traffic issues for the past three years. Rob is a physician and has been in private practice in Northern Virginia for the past fifteen years. Prior to that, he worked for Healthcare for the Homeless and at DC General Hospital in the District of Columbia. At DC General, he was the Medical Director of the Primary Care Clinics for the Georgetown University Medical Service. Rob is a native of New Orleans. He attended Dartmouth College, received a BA in Political Science, worked briefly on Capital Hill, and then attended Tulane University Medical School. 
 

Lance Hoffman
Secretary
Term expires 2008
email: lhoffman@townofchevychase.org 
7104 44th Street
 
Lance Hoffman, a resident since 1986, is Council liaison to the Public Services Committee.  He spearheaded passage of the water drainage ordinance to prevent runoff from new construction adversely affecting existing homes and worked with other Council members to get the County to replace deteriorating and inadequate storm drains around the Town.   He has also instituted more up-to-date Internet-based services, including selective messaging about Town events, ordinances, and emergencies to residents and transparent posting of all proposed legislation and many support documents of building permits on the Web.
 
Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science at George Washington University, Lance directs the CyberCorps scholarship program for students starting federal careers in computer security. A nationally recognized expert on the topic, Lance serves on the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Committee on Data Privacy and Integrity.  He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.
 
His son Jason attended Rosemary Hills, Chevy Chase Elementary, Westland, and B-CC and is now an aspiring screenwriter in New York.  His wife Mary Anne led the project that created the Town architectural tour booklet now given to all residents and was executive producer of the documentary “Chevy Chase, Maryland: A Streetcar to Home”.

Kathy Strom
Treasurer
Term expires 2008
email:kstrom@townofchevychase.org
7212 RIDGEWOOD AVENUE
 
For the past 15 years, Kathy, and her husband David have lived at 7212 Ridgewood Avenue with their three children, Helen and Mark, who are juniors at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, and Jacob, who is a sixth grader at Chevy Chase Elementary School.  She has volunteered in numerous community activities and political campaigns, and most recently served as Chair of the Town's Setbacks Subcommittee and as a member of the Steering Committee, which has been responsible for reviewing and recommending new ordinances to the Town Council during the Town's recent moratorium.  A graduate of Harvard College, cum laude, and New York University School of Law, Kathy works as a regulatory lawyer in the Washington, DC office of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, experience that has been of enormous benefit in her volunteer efforts for the Town.
 

Mier Wolf
Community Liaison
Term expires 2008
email: mierwolf@townofchevychase.org
7622 LYNN DRIVE
 
Mier and Cathy Wolf moved to the Town in 1972. Mier is serving on the Town Council for his twelth term. He previously served as Council Chairman from 1990 until 1995, and as Mayor from 1995 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2004. Mier is an attorney who has retired from the office of General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He served on the Council that built the Leland Community Center and led the Council during the addition of the Town Hall to the Center. Mier is the current President of the Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Coalition, advocates to save the Capital Crescent Trail. He is also currently serving on County Councilmember Berliner's task force on mansionization.  He has served as President of the Chevy Chase Recreation Association (CCRA), on the PTAs at Rosemary Hills and Chevy Chase Elementary, as Chairman of the Citizens Advisory Board for Recreation in the Western Area of the County, and a as member of the Citizen Advisory Board for the twenty-year Bethesda Central Business District Sector Plan. Mier represented the Town on a County Council Task Force for the Bethesda-Silver Spring hiker/biker trail and worked for the opening of the Air Rights Building Tunnel as part of the trail. Mier is a past chair of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Advisory Board as well as being a former Board Member of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Foundation and the Friends of the Library. Additionally, Mier is on the boards for the Writer's Center, and the Advisory Board for the Leland Community Center. Mier serves on the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Montgomery County Chapter Advisory Board. He served two terms on the Board of the Bethesda Urban Partnership. Mier and his wife Cathy have two grown children.