District 4: Bill Henry

410-396-4830
410-659-1792 (fax)
Room 502, City Hall
Bill.Henry@baltimorecity.gov

 

Committees: Vice Chair, Education; Executive Appointments; Taxation, Finance and Economic Development; Community Development Subcommittee.

Bill Henry brings a wealth of experience across the public, private, and non-profit sectors to his new job representing the City Council’s 4th District.

Before being elected to the City Council, Bill was most recently the Director of Commercial Development for the Patterson Park Community Development Corporation. Prior to working at PPCDC, Bill spent several years on staff at City Hall, first as the legislative aide for City Council President Mary Pat Clarke, then as special assistant to President Clarke’s chief of staff, before being appointed chief of staff to City Council President Lawrence Bell. Bill had also worked as a staff assistant to Congressman Ben Cardin before coming to City Hall.

For almost twenty years, Bill has been active in Baltimore’s civic affairs. He is a former board president of Citizens Planning and Housing Association, the Greater Homewood Community Corporation, the Greater Baltimore Young Democrats, and the Mobtown Players, a local community theater company. He has also served on the boards of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Johns Hopkins Society of Black Alumni, the Radnor-Winston Improvement Association, and the Friends of the Govans Library, and has completed the Greater Baltimore Committee’s LEADERship program. A longtime advocate for strengthening the York-Greenmount corridor, Bill co-chaired the Greenmount Avenue Revitalization Task Force and has served on the steering committee for the York Road Partnership.

Bill is a graduate of Loyola College’s Sellinger School of Business, where he earned a master’s of business administration degree, with a concentration in finance. His undergraduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University is in social & behavioral sciences, with concentrations in urban studies and public policy. Bill also graduated from Loyola-Blakefield High School’s honors program and St. Mary’s parish school in Govans.

A lifelong City resident, Bill lives in the North Baltimore neighborhood of Radnor-Winston with his wife Ruth, their two daughters – C.J. and Amelia – and their dog, Harpo. He is a licensed real estate agent with City Life Realty and enjoys helping people buy homes in Baltimore City in his spare time.