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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING, & REGULATION

SECRETARIES

FORMER SECRETARIES

[photo, Ejner J. Johnson, Maryland Secretary of Licensing and Regulation] EJNER J. JOHNSON (1932-2006)
Secretary of Licensing & Regulation, 1979

Executive Assistant, Office of Governor, 1963.

Executive Assistant to Commissioner, Department of Motor Vehicles, 1965-67. Member, Highway Safety Coordinating Committee, 1966-71. Chief Deputy Commissioner, Department of Motor Vehicles, 1967-69. Commissioner, Department of Motor Vehicles, 1970-71.


Member, Governor's Task Force on Creation of a State Department of Transportation, 1969-70; Governor's Commission on Abandonment and Recycling of Motor Vehicles, 1970-71. Chair, Task Force on Periodic Motor Vehicle Inspection, 1970-71; Task Force to Study the Driver Education Program in Maryland, 1971. Member, Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Board, 1971-72. Administrator, Motor Vehicle Administration, 1971-79. Chair, Board of Trustees, Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, 1972-75 (member, 1976-79); Driver Education Task Force, 1973-75. Member, Transportation Professional Services Selection Board, 1974-77. Chair, Executive Committee, Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission, 1976.

Secretary of Licensing and Regulation, 1979. Member, Governor's Executive Council, 1979.

Chief of Staff, Office of Governor, 1979-87.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, April 21, 1932. Attended Erasmus Hall High School, 1950. Served in U.S. Army in Europe (tank commander), 1951-53. University of Maryland, College Park, B.A., 1957. Political reporter, Baltimore News Post, 1957-61. Past president of American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (chair, model nonresident violator compact advisory group, 1977). Widower; five children. Died in Glen Burnie, Maryland, August 8, 2006.

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