Patricia O'Neill

Mrs. O'Neill was first elected to the Board of Education in 1998. She is currently serving as vice president of the Board. She has served three times as Board president and four times as vice president. Mrs. O’Neill is chair of the Policy Committee and a member of the Fiscal Management Committee and the Communications and Public Engagement Committee. She also recently participated in the Harvard Public Education Leadership Project.

Mrs. O’Neill is past president of the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE) and past co-chair of the Washington Area Boards of Education. She has served on numerous advisory committees for education-related issues, including the Maryland Blue Ribbon Panel on Teen Pregnancy and the Maryland Comp HSA Task Force. In 2006, she was named by then-Governor Robert Ehrlich to represent MABE on the Task Force on School Safety and was selected as a member of the national network of 100 District Leaders for Citizenship and Service-Learning. Prior to joining the Board, Mrs. O’Neill was a longtime PTA activist in the Walt Whitman Cluster who served in various volunteer and leadership roles.

Mrs. O’Neill is a graduate of Walter Johnson High School and has a degree in social science from Southern Methodist University. She is married and has two daughters who are graduates of MCPS.

• 3rd term expires 2010
• Resident of Bethesda

• Tel: 301-320-7600
• Fax: 301-320-7601
• Address:
  Carver Educational Services
  Center, Room 123
  850 Hungerford Drive
  Rockville, Maryland 20850

E-mail: Patricia_O'Neill@mcpsmd.org

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