Adelaide Eckardt
| Adelaide C. Eckardt | |
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| Member of the Maryland Senate from the 37th district |
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Assumed office January 14, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Richard F. Colburn |
| Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 37B district |
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In office January 11, 1995 – January 14, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Alan Thornton Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Christopher T. Adams & Johnny Mautz |
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September 8, 1943  Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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| Political party | Republican |
Adelaide C. Eckardt (born September 8, 1943), is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, District 37B.
Adelaide C. Eckardt was first elected in 1994 to represent the new District 37B. District 37B covers parts of Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, & Wicomico counties.
She defeated Democratic incumbent Robert Alan Thornton Jr. and served with fellow Republican Kenneth D. Schisler. She ran in 1990, but was defeated by Kenneth D. Schisler, Robert Alan Thornton Jr., and Democrat Samuel Q. Johnson III.
In 1998, Eckardt was reelected along with Schisler. Again in 2002, Eckardt and Schisler won with little competition. Finally, in 2006, Eckardt won reelection, this time with fellow Republican, Jeannie Haddaway. Schisler was appointed to the chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission by Governor Bob Ehrlich in May 2003.
Like fellow House Republican Mary Roe Walkup, Eckardt got her career start in nursing. Eckardt attended Bryn Mawr Hospital School of Nursing and received her R.N. degree. She later attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Nursing attaining her B.S. in 1978, and later her M.S. in 1981. She practiced as a Registered Nurse-Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist.
A few years later, Eckardt became an adjunct member of the faculty at Salisbury State University. Later that same year, she became a Psychiatric Nurse Clinical Specialist at Eastern Shore Hospital Center [1] and worked there until 2003. During that same time, she also served as an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She remained on the faculty from 1991-99.
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