Bud Otis

Bud Otis
Frederick County Councilmember, at-large
In office
December 1, 2014 – December 1, 2018
Preceded by Office created
Personal details
Political party Republican
Alma mater [1]

Harold F. "Bud" Otis (born 1939 or 1940) is an American politician serving in 2015 as president, County Council, Frederick County, Maryland.[2] A member of the Republican Party, in 2014 he won election as one of the inaugural members of the council of Frederick County, Maryland, as an at-large member,[1] and then was selected by the council to serve as its president.

Education and experience

He attended Andrews University, a university in Michigan started by Seventh-day Adventists, where he earned a B.B.A. (business administration) in 1965.[1]

He later served, during 1989-90, as assistant to the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.[1] The General Conference, based in Silver Spring, Maryland is the governing organization of the world-wide Seventh-day Adventist Church.

He served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Roscoe G. Bartlett during 2001-12.[1]

He served as Chair of the Ethics Commission of Frederick County during 2012-13. He joined the Board of Elections, of Frederick County as a Member, in 2015.[1]

He was president of the Review and Herald Publishing Association during 1978-88, and also president of Family Enrichment Resources, a non-profit (?), during 1991-97.[1] He served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Maj. Gen. Boyd C. Cook Foundation during 2012-13.[1]

Frederick County Council

In 2014, Otis ran as the Maryland Republican Party candidate for one of the two at-large positions on the first elected council of Frederick County. He was elected by total of 39,756 votes, more than each of the three other candidates. In the election voters were allowed to vote for two at-large candidates. Otis and the other Republican candidate, Billy Shreve, were selected with 27.4 percent and 24.7 percent of the at-large votes, respectively. The other votes went to Democratic candidates, Susan Reeder Jessee and Linda Marie Norris, and to write-in candidates.[3]

The election established that there would be four Republicans on the seven person council, which a Frederick News-Post editorial noted would give the leading position on the council, with powers to set agenda and more, to a Republican. The Frederick News-Post editorial called for Otis to be selected, out of the majority party's members, as council president.[4] He was in fact then elected by a 4-3 vote.[5]

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