Roberta (Bobbie) Dillow began her appointment with the Howard Community College Board of Trustees in July 2002, and was re-appointed to a second term that runs through June of 2014.  She has served as the chair and vice chair of the board and currently serves as the board liaison to the Howard Community College Educational Foundation Board and the Maryland Association of Community Colleges Board.  Ms. Dillow is an independent consultant in communications / marketing.  Her area of expertise includes relationship building, strategic planning, non-profit board and fund development, and networking to effect changes in public policy issues.

Bobbie spent the majority of her career with Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), which she joined in 1961 and at the time of her retirement in 1998, held the position of executive director-economic development.  In this capacity, Ms. Dillow was responsible for liaison activities between BGE and state and local economic development officials. 

Among the many civic activities that have brought her a reputation for community leadership were service as first vice president of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland (for which she received the Maryland Distinguished Woman Award) and president of the Greater Howard County Chamber of Commerce.  She was a charter member of Metro Crime Alert, Maryland Government Relations Association, and  Kids Voting Maryland.

Ms. Dillow has also served on the Howard County Economic Development Authority, the American Council on Podiatric Medical Education, the Columbia Foundation, Howard Community College Educational Foundation, and is past president of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation-Maryland Chapter, Action for the Homeless, Developmental Services Group, Inc. (currently Humanim, Inc.) and  past chair of the Congregational Council at First Evangelical Lutheran Church. In addition to the Howard Community College Board of Trustees, she serves on the board of the Center for Career Changers to the Classroom.

A resident of Columbia, Ms. Dillow is a graduate of the University of Maryland, with a B.S. degree in Management.  She has completed professional training in Federal Government Operations at the Brookings Institution as well as the Public Affairs Institute, Boston College’s Community Relations Institute, and Leadership Maryland. Ms. Dillow was selected as Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1998 and 2006 and also is a 2006 inductee in the Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame.