Maryland State Treasurer Nancy Kopp To Step Down After 50 Years Of Public Service

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland State Nancy K. Kopp announced Monday that she plans to resign by the extremity of this twelvemonth aft a 50-year vocation successful nationalist service.

Kopp is the 2nd longest-serving authorities treasurer successful Maryland and the 2nd pistillate to service successful the role. She was archetypal elected successful Feb. 2022 and has been re-elected to 5 afloat four-year terms.

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“Serving arsenic Maryland’s Treasurer has been a large privilege, arsenic good arsenic a terrific challenge. I person cherished the accidental to service and judge that, moving together, we person made a existent publication to the payment of our authorities and chap citizens. Maryland is strong; a exemplary of good, prudent fiscal absorption and investment,” said Treasurer Kopp. “We person invested successful our corporate aboriginal — successful nationalist education, large universities, a dependable quality and carnal infrastructure, and successful the galore different ways successful which we enactment to guarantee beardown communities and decent lives for each Marylanders.”

Following 50 years of nationalist service, Kopp says she hopes to walk much clip with her household and question extensively.

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Gov. Larry Hogan released a connection regarding Kopp’s resignation:

“It is hard to ideate chairing a Board of Public Works gathering without Nancy Kopp. With the second-longest tenure of immoderate treasurer successful authorities history, Nancy volition permission an unthinkable bequest of beardown fiscal stewardship, which has helped guarantee our coveted AAA enslaved standing twelvemonth aft year. We person enjoyed a precise cordial relationship, and I person ever admired her committedness to the radical of Maryland. On behalf of each Marylanders, I privation to explicit my profound gratitude to Nancy Kopp for her decades of distinguished work and privation her good successful retirement.”

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Maryland State instrumentality requires the Senate President and House Speaker to name a committee to reappraisal candidates for the opening. The process volition statesman successful the coming weeks.

CBS Baltimore Staff