Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith

Now	Then

Where did you grow up?
Reisterstown and Owings Mills

What did your parents do for a living?
My mother was a homemaker and my father was an attorney.

Where did you go to high school?
Loyola High School

Who was your role model growing up?
One of my teachers, Father Ed Gannon.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Since my father was an attorney, I had an interest in the law.

Do you have a favorite sports memory from your youth?
I will never forget making the freshman football team at Loyola High School.

What is your favorite food?
I love rockfish.

What is your favorite kind of music?
I love classical music.

What is your favorite movie?
Ben Hur

What do you do to relax?
Work in the garden and read.

What is the best part of your job?
The people

What is the best advice you have ever received that you would like to pass along to the younger generation?
Many people told me how important it was to give something back to the community, and that has proven to be very true over the years.

Revised May 25, 2006