Comptroller-elect Brooke Lierman (D) is announcing Monday the first major appointments of her senior leadership team as she prepares to take office on Jan. 16.
Lierman has tapped Rianna P. Matthews-Brown to be her chief of staff, and said that Andrew Schaufele, a mainstay in the comptroller’s office for 13 years, will serve as chief deputy comptroller.
Matthews-Brown is a veteran government manager who has also worked in the private sector, spending seven years at Johns Hopkins University, most recently as deputy chief of staff to President Ronald Daniels. She has also been director of university initiatives for Daniels and has also been part of the university’s government affairs team.
Matthews-Brown has also worked for the Maryland Department of Health, as chief of staff for behavioral health, as chief of staff at the Baltimore City Department of Health, and as an assistant legislative director for the Service Employees International Union. She has also worked on Capitol Hill, for the late Maryland Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D) and for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and for U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.).
Click here to read the rest of the article written Josh Kurtz by over at Maryland Matters
