New Chair and Vice Chair Elected to HCC Board of Trustees

Laura L. Henninger, Esq., CPA has been elected chair of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees and Richard P. Streett, III, D.V.M. has been elected vice chair for 2020-2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Board meeting on June 9 was held virtually.

Ms. Henninger, who formerly served as vice chair, was appointed to the Board in 2015. She is the managing attorney/owner of Henninger & Henninger, LLC in Bel Air, and received an AV® Preeminent™ attorney rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Her practice is concentrated in the areas of wills, trusts, and estate planning; estate and trust administration; elder law and disability planning; real estate law; and business transactions.

She received a BS in economics and accounting, summa cum laude, from the University of Dayton, and earned a JD, with honors, from the University of Maryland School of Law. Ms. Henninger is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the Harford County Bar Association, the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, the Women's Giving Circle of Harford County, and Chesapeake Professional Women's Network, Inc. Ms. Henninger also currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Harford Bank.

Active in the community, Ms. Henninger's past leadership roles include vice-chair and grants committee chair for the Women's Giving Circle of Harford County; board member and secretary for Birthright Pregnancy Aid Center of Harford County, Inc.; president and founding board member of Chesapeake Professional Women's Network, Inc.; and board member and treasurer for ARC-Northern Chesapeake Region Foundation, Inc. Ms. Henninger is a graduate of the Harford Leadership Academy.

Dr. Streett was appointed to the Board in 2015. He is the managing partner for Churchville, Greenbrier, and Swan Creek Veterinary Clinics; he worked there previously as an associate veterinarian. Dr. Streett coordinates the day-to-day operations of the three veterinary offices located in Harford County and oversees more than 50 staff members and associate veterinarians. He provides strategic and fiscal management for the corporation, establishes marketing initiatives, and provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical care. Prior to joining the Churchville Veterinary Clinic, he worked as an associate veterinarian at the Greater Annapolis Veterinary Hospital.

He earned a BS in Environmental Resource Management from The Pennsylvania State University in 1996 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (Blacksburg, VA) in May 2000.

Dr. Streett is the President-Elect of the Maryland Veterinary Medical Association. He served previously as Vice President and was the Harford County Delegate from June 2005-June 2014. He is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Harford Veterinary Medical Association. He received the American Animal Hospital Association Award for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery.