Demanue Millard

Demanue Millard is one of the most powerful political players in Baltimore, but the chief of staff to Mayor Sheila Dixon (D-Baltimore) keeps a low-key profile - mostly working behind the scenes.

Millard, 35, currently wears two hats in the Dixon administration. He's been serving as director of the Office of Governmental Relations since January 2007, but in July, Millard took on an even more challenging role - serving as chief of staff in the Dixon administration in the midst of an ongoing investigation into the mayor's relationship with a prominent city developer.

However, Millard says the investigation, rather than serving as a distraction, caused Dixon to intensify her level of focus. It's a response he called "a true sign of a leader."
 
Millard may work mostly behind the scenes, but his loyalty to the mayor is quite public.
 
"He's tremendously loyal," Bill Henry, who represents the Baltimore city council's 4th District, told PolitickerMD.com. "If he disagreed with Dixon, he would share that with her privately."

Demanue Millard, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's (D) chief of staff, said Tuesday that turnout was extremely high in Baltimore city.
 
"This is truly nothing I have ever seen before," Millard wrote in an email to PolitickerMD.com.  "In Baltimore we typically pray for no rain on Election Day.  However, with today's historical significance it appears that a torrential downpour wouldn't impact the turnout from what we have seen this morning."

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon named Demanue Millard as her new chief of staff on Friday.

Prior to his appointment as Dixon’s chief of staff, Millard served the mayor as Director of the Office of Governmental Relations since January 2007. He also served as a principle legislative liaison to the Maryland Department of Transportation for four years and has worked as a legislative aide for U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Baltimore).