Howard Menaker

Howard Menaker has served the City of Rehoboth Beach as a member of the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk and Beach Committee and the Baltimore-Wilmington Avenue Streetscape Task Force, and has previously served on the Boards of CAMP Rehoboth and Seaside Jewish Community. Currently, he is acting as an advisor to the Rehoboth Beach Public Library's Capital Campaign. Howard and his husband Patrick Gossett began spending summers in Rehoboth Beach in 1993 and have owned their home in The Pines since 1996. In 2014, Howard suffered a spinal cord injury and ever since has been working hard on his recovery at the Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord injury. At Kennedy Krieger, Howard serves as a voice to their community of donors, patients, and the public, and plays a role in fundraising - helping them advance their mission of improving the lives of countless children and adults with autism, spinal cord injuries or rare genetic diseases. Professionally, Howard worked for 18 years as a Senior Communications and Public Affairs Manager with Bechtel, the world's largest construction and engineering company. Before joining Bechtel, Howard was a general counsel and lobbyist for numerous national trade associations and was an attorney in private practice.