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Councilmember Laurie-Anne Sayles is a compassionate leader with vision. On Tuesday, November 7, 2017, Laurie-Anne Sayles made history becoming the first African-American person ever elected to the City Council of Gaithersburg. She also serves as the Mayor & City Council liaison to the Senior Advisory Committee and the Friends of Wells Robertson House, where she is tasked with facilitating a close working relationship between our seniors, retirees and local government and to support, independently and collaboratively, a continuum of prevention and intervention programs and services to reduce chronic addiction and homelessness in the Gaithersburg community.

Following her historic election to the Gaithersburg City Council, Councilmember Sayles was appointed to the Community and Economic Development Federal Advocacy Committee of the National League of Cities, and the Chesapeake Bay & Water Resources Policy Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Councilmember Sayles was named as one of The Daily Record’s 2018 Top 100 Women in Maryland.

Councilmember Sayles holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Baltimore and a Bachelor of Public Health degree from the University of MD, College Park. Councilmember Sayles is a long-time member of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. Councilmember Sayles lives in Gaithersburg with her husband, Hon. Julian Haffner, Esq. their daughter Mikaylah, a student at Sewanee: University of the South, TN, and their rescue dogs, Maxwell and Bella.