Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA) is a division of the

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Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

in the United States. The department was established by the Maryland General Assembly in 1999. The Maryland Veterans Trust, a

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, was created in 2010 with authorization of the general assembly.

List of secretaries

Thomas E. Hutchins Thomas E. Hutchins, born in Baltimore, Maryland, was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 28, which covers a portion of Charles County, Maryland, prior to being selected to be the secretary of Maryland State Police. Educatio ...

, 2003 *

James A. Adkins James A. Adkins (born 1954) is an American retired senior military officer and former cabinet-level official who served the adjutant general of Maryland and secretary of the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs. Early life and education ...

, 2007-2009 * George W. Owings III, 2015-2023 *

Anthony Woods Anthony Christopher Woods (born July 20, 1980) is an American politician serving as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs since January 2023. He was a U.S. Army officer deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Woods was disc ...

, 2023-present

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veterans A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has ...

State departments of veterans affairs in the United States 1999 establishments in Maryland