Governor Martin O’Malley appointed Beverley K. Swaim-Staley as Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) effective January 17, 2007. In this capacity, she serves as the Chief Operating Officer for a 9,000-employee department that operates Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the Port of Baltimore, an extensive mass transit and highway network, as well as the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. The Department has an annual budget of $3.9 billion dollars. Ms. Swaim-Staley returns to the position of Deputy Secretary that she held from 1999 through 2003.

Prior to her appointment by Governor O’Malley, Ms. Swaim-Staley served as Director of Montgomery County’s Office of Management and Budget where she managed an operating budget of $3.8 billion and a six-year capital budget of $3.5 billion. During nearly ten years of prior service at MDOT that began in 1993, Ms. Swaim-Staley amassed a wealth of transportation management experience. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Secretary in 1999, Ms. Swaim-Staley served as the Chief Financial Officer for MDOT from 1993 through 1998. In that capacity, she managed the Department’s annual budget and handled financial planning, budgeting, accounting and information technology. The position also served s a policy advisor on fiscal and legislative issues to the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary and served as the Secretary's representative on the State Debt Affordability Committee. From 2001 through 2002, she held the dual positions of Deputy Secretary and Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration.

Ms. Swaim Staley began her career in public service as a financial analyst for the Maryland General Assembly, monitoring the fiscal impacts of State legislation regulations and the State transportation budget. She also staffed the budget committees on debt affordability, spending affordability and the State's capital budget.

Ms. Swaim-Staley received her Bachelors in Political Science and her Masters in Contemporary Government from Hood College in Frederick. A native of Hagerstown, Maryland, Ms. Swaim-Staley resides in Davidsonville, Maryland, with her husband.