After more than 15 years serving District 39, Delegate Kirill Reznik announced Tuesday he is stepping down to take a position in Gov. Wes Moore’s administration.
Reznik, who will retire March 21, will be the Assistant Secretary for Inter-Department Data Integration in the Maryland Department of Human Services.
The Kyiv, Ukraine native joins fellow Montgomery County legislators former Del. Eric Luedtke and Sen. Susan Lee in moving to the executive branch in Annapolis.
In a telephone interview, Reznik said he has mixed emotions. “Obviously, it’s a hard decision,” he said. He called the House of Delegates his second home, noting he’s represented the district that includes the area around Montgomery Village, Clarksburg and Germantown, longer than he has been married.
However, he said, “This is an opportunity that doesn’t come along frequently.”
His role will be to serve the vulnerable population by making it easier to obtain services and information across state departments. “The department itself is very siloed,” he said.
Reznik, who is the first Ukrainian born state legislator in the United States, was appointed to the House of Delegates in October of 2007 and has been elected four times since then.
According to his announcement, Reznik has spent his time in Annapolis focusing on health care policy, election reform, and government transparency. He is proud of his effort to ban use of credit history in hiring process, reform the state procurement system, allow for the direct sale of electric vehicles and create a robotics education grant program.
During his 15-and-a-half years, he created a first in the nation energy storage tax credit, required schools to stock menstrual products in school bathrooms and helped rape victims get access to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
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