Town of Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin was inducted into the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame yesterday. The seven-term mayor has served on the District of Columbia's Human Rights Commission, the Women's Campaign Fund Board of Directors, the national LGBTQ Task Force Board of Directors, the Maryland Municipal League Board of Directors, the Maryland Mayors Association, and the MML's Montgomery County chapter.
Slavin was the first openly LGBTQ elected official to serve in Somerset, and as Vice-Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party. He is currently a member of the Maryland Black Mayors Association, the Montgomery County NAACP, and the National Council of Negro Women.
In recent years, Slavin made news when he resigned from his lifelong membership at the Woodmont Country Club, after some members of the club suggested they would not welcome President Barack Obama as a member because they opposed his policies on Israel. Slavin was also one of very, very few local elected officials to publicly support advocates for the desecrated Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda.
Six people in total were inducted into the Hall yesterday. The others were former Montgomery County Councilmember Bruce Adams, first woman president of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Association Marcine Goodloe, Montgomery County Chief of Police Marcus Jones, biomedical scientist and nationally-prominent Asian-American activist Dr. Michael Lin, and former Montgomery County Chief of Police Darryl McSwain, who now leads the Maryland National Capital Park Police Montgomery County Division.
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