In an over four-decade career with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Terry led the fight to expand rights, improve wages, and secure health care and retirement security through organizing, collective bargaining, and legislation.
SEIU represents janitors, childcare providers, public employees, homecare workers, and other healthcare workers at the national, state, and local levels.
As the Executive Director of SEIU’s Maryland & DC State Council advocated for many pieces of pro-worker legislation, including the original Retirement Security bill (a.k.a. MarylandSaves). SEIU is organizing thousands of workers in Maryland and hundreds of thousands across the United States who don’t have a retirement savings program at work.
Received a bachelor’s degree in Labor Relations from LeMoyne College.
Terry has served on the boards of the Oregon School Funding Commission, the San Diego Service Workers Center, and as Chairman of the Center for Creative Citizen Action (Portland, OR).
He and his wife, Robyn, are the parents of three adult children and live in Catonsville. Serves as the Chair of the Economic Justice Committee, St. Ignatius Church, Baltimore.
