Jacob R. Day.
Jacob R. Day, Maryland’s secretary of Housing & Community Development and former mayor of Salisbury, will address the 2023 Wor-Wic Community College graduates at commencement on Wednesday, May 10, at 7 p.m. at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury.
Day was elected as Salisbury’s 28th mayor in 2015, and served in that capacity until appointed to the cabinet of Gov. Wes Moore in 2023. A Salisbury native, Day previously served as city council president. He was also elected as the 79th president of the Maryland Municipal League, representing Maryland’s 157 municipalities, and was one of Maryland’s representatives to the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Local Government Advisory Committee. An urban designer and architect by training, Day has served as the director of the Center for Towns for the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.
Day is a major in the U.S. Army assigned to the Maryland Army National Guard as an information operations and special technical operations officer with the 110th Information Operations Battalion. Day received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Maryland in College Park and earned master’s degrees from Oxford University in England and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.