ALICIA CORO HOFFMAN
Dorchester County
Appointed November 2005
Senior Executive in U.S. Department of Education before retiring in 1998. Positions included: Director of School Improvement Programs in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (1988-1996); Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (1987-88); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (1985-87); Director of the Horace Mann Center (1980-85), managing career development programs for Department of Education employees, including senior executives. Recipient of Senior Executive Presidential Rank Award, the highest performance award of the U.S. Civil Service. M.Ed. in Foreign Language Teaching and Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Listed among the 25 Top Latinas in Education in U.S. by Hispanic Magazine in 2005. Served on Maryland Higher Education Commission 2004-05. Member of the Dorchester County Arts Center Board.