TRACYE C. TURNER

Prince George's County
Appointed March 2013

Ms. Turner is co-owner and executive vice president of Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (2003-present), located in the University of Maryland's M Square Research Park since 2009. She has also served on the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) Foundation Board of Trustees (2011-2013), the UMCP Big Ten Integration Commission (2013). In addition, she has served as a board member for the Columbia Beach Homeowners' Improvement Association (2011-2012) and as an adult member of the Girl Scouts of America including her local troop's Robotics Team (2010-2012). Prior to Optimal Solutions Group, Ms. Turner was employed at Northrop Grumman Information Technology in Greenbelt, Md., where she was a regional manager and received numerous awards for her work in implementing enterprise-level leading-edge technologies in new markets.

She is married to Mark Turner, who received his Ph.D. in economics in 1995 from UMCP and has served on the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Board of Visitors. Both Mark and Tracye have established an endowed scholarship in economics at UMCP, provide annual scholarship support for the UMCP School of Public Health and sponsor several annual UMCP technology conferences. Ms. Turner received her B.A. in business administration in 1988 from Clark-Atlanta University.