Muriel Bowser — a fifth generation Washingtonian — has a long- standing record of participation in local and regional government. She has more than ten years of experience bringing high-level government services to neighborhoods.
Prior to her election to the Council, Muriel managed a mini-town hall in Montgomery County, Maryland with a multi-million dollar budget, where she ensured that 150,000 stayed connected to the government that serviced them. She also oversaw a downtown transportation management district where she was responsible for ensuring that balanced transportation options were available to residents, workers and visitors in a growing urban environment. Muriel has also worked with over 10 local jurisdictions around the Metropolitan Washington Region promoting alternative transportation options with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Muriel's participation in downtown revitalization and transportation planning has helped transform communities and has well prepared her to lead an ambitious Ward 4 agenda.
Civic engagement is a Bowser family tradition. Muriel is the last of Joan and Joe Bowser's five children — all of whom call DC home. Commissioner and Mrs. Bowser, both retired employees of DC government, raised their kids to invest their time and talents into making DC a place everyone is proud to call home. Muriel's dad was elected to the first class of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners in 1976. Muriel was so very proud to follow in her father's footsteps when her neighbors elected her their Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC). She has also been very active with her local civic association, serving as the Second Vice President of the Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association. Muriel served all of Ward 4 as the First Vice President of the Ward 4 Democrats.
Through the years, Muriel has been responsible for bringing programs and services closer to the communities and neighborhoods that need them. This focus on neighborhoods has had a resounding effect in Ward 4. In an energetic special election in 2007, Muriel campaigned from her home in Riggs Park to every corner and block of Ward 4. She garnered over 40 percent of the vote in Ward 4 where residents overwhelmingly supported Muriel's vision — a focus on neighborhoods, fixing our schools and bringing needed economic revitalization to Ward 4's commercial corridors, especially Georgia Avenue.
Muriel is a member of the Public Works and the Environment Committee, the Public Safety and the Judiciary Committee, as well as Housing and Urban Affairs, and Human Services. She brought to the Council extensive transportation planning experience representing and represents the Council of the District of Columbia on COG's Transportation Planning Board.
Ms. Bowser has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Master's in Public Policy from American University in Washington, DC.
With the support of Ward 4 residents, Muriel is seeking a full, four-year term and looks forward to continuing her commitment to service delivery and neighborhoods on the Council of the District of Columbia.
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