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of Foxhounds for the Howard County-Iron Bridge Hounds and cur- rently hunts with the Cattail Chase Hounds. Last but not least, Crystal is the 2010 recipient of the American Horse Council’s Van Ness Award, given in recognition to an individual dedicated to the improvement of the horse industry at the state level.
Corinne Pouliquen is the current Vice President-Membership of
the Maryland Horse Council and the Chair of MHC’s Membership Committee. She is also a past MHC Co-President. Corinne owns and manages Park Overlook Farm in Montgomery County, which provides pony rides, on-farm parties, and offers a petting zoo and games. In her professional life, Corinne is a Registered Patent Attorney with 20 years of corporate and law firm patent prosecution experience in the chemi- cal, biotechnology and mechanical arts, as well as in more traditional transactional practices of writing legal opinions, and negotiating/draft- ing license agreements. She worked in-house as IP Counsel for a veteri- nary pharmaceutical company, and as Patent Counsel for a biotechnol- ogy company. Corinne is also an author and frequent lecturer on various topics in intellectual property law. Prior to entering the legal profession, Corinne worked in scientific research both as a Veterinary Research As- sistant and as an Analytical Chemist. Corinne was active on the 2018 MHC Strategic Planning Committee.
Alicia Schwartzbeck is a bookkeeper by trade, and a western rider
of Quarter Horses by passion. Alicia touches the horse community in myriad ways – and not just through her own showing career. She is the current Treasurer of the Maryland State Quarter Horse Association (a member of MHC), is the bookkeeper for her T&M Custom Home Builders, and is a member of the accounting team at MHC member Jen- nifer Allen & Associates accounting firm, which specializes in equestrian businesses. Based in Boonsboro, the gateway to Western Maryland, Ali- cia brings not only the much needed Quarter Horse and western riding perspective to MHC, she also brings a financial background in publica- tions, as the bookkeeper for Sass magazine, a women’s lifestyle magazine serving the Frederick and Western Maryland areas.
Jane Seigler is a past President and past Vice President of the Mary- land Horse Council, the current Co-Chair of the Government Rela- tions Committee, and the Chair of the Maryland Horse Council PAC. She was also a founding member of the Board of the Maryland Horse Council Foundation and a founding director of the Waredaca Event- ing Education Foundation. Jane is a graduate of Brown University and Rutgers University Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Review, and she completed a judicial clerkship with the DC Court of Appeals before entering private practice. After 13 years as an antitrust and utility litigator, Jane decided to devote herself full time to being the chief operating officer of Reddemeade Farm, Inc. Now, she lives and trains out of her own Dressage at Sundown in Laytsonsville. Jane is a U.S. Dressage Association silver medalist and frequently judges schooling dressage shows and the dressage phase of local horse trials. She and her husband, Paul Schopf, assisted Walter Zettl with the preparation of his book, Dressage in Harmony, from Basic to Grand Prix (Half Halt Press 1998), and are co-authors with Zettl of Te Circle of Trust, Reflec- tions on the Essence of Horses and Horsemanship (Half Halt Press, 2007). Jane is a current member of the Montgomery County Farm Bureau Legislative Committee, and previously served on the Marion DuPont Scott Equine Medical Center Advisory Council, the External Advisory Council of University of Maryland Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, the Montgomery County Agri-Tourism Study Committee,
Montgomery County’s Zoning Advisory Panel, and the Montgomery County Agricultural Advisory Committee. She was actively involved in the legislative consideration of the Montgomery County Equestrian Facility Zoning Text Amendment, which became law on April 5, 2004. Jane served on the Maryland Horse Industry Board’s Strategic Planning Committee and Horse Forum Planning Subcommittee in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019. She served for nine years on the Board of Directors of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association, including two years as Chair- man of the Board and two years as Vice President.
Carolann Sharpe is the owner of Black and White Cookie Equine, a horsemanship education business that offers personal training sessions, one-time horse experiences, pony rides, and pony visits at senior resi- dence and memory care units. She is also the Chair of the MHC’s Trails Stewardship Committee and the President of Trail Riders of Today (TROT) (a member of MHC). Carolann is an avid trail rider and she and her husband own a farm on the Baltimore/Carroll County border. In her professional life, Carolann earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Loyola University, a Master’s Degree in Education from Notre Dame of Maryland University, and became a teacher.
Chad Walker grew up in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia,
where he was active in 4-H and the Future Farmers of America (FFA). He showed beef cattle, horses, and chickens. Chad earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science from West Virginia University and now owns 300 acres in Clear Spring (Washington County) where he farms hay and raises beef cattle. Chad also breeds Belgian Drafts and Quarter Horses at his farm. He also works as a small animal veterinary technician at Boons- boro Hospital. Chad is an aficionado of western pleasure and trails, gam- ing (poles, barrels, flag, and dash), and driving Belgian Drafts for field work. For the last four years, he has been the Secretary and Treasurer of the National Pike Festival and James Shaull Wagon Train Founda- tion. For the last six years he has also been the treasurer of the Morgan County Saddle Club in Berkeley Springs, WV. Chad is a member of MHIB’s new Western Riding Committee.
WELCOME BACK RENEWED MEMBERS
Blue Coastal Group (Michael Hall), Long & Foster Real Estate/TK Homes (Toni Koerber), Retired Racehorse Project (Kirsten Green), Sil- verado Frederick 4H (Debbie Endlich).
WHAT IS AN INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL? Industry Professional Memberships are open to owners and managers
of equine or equine-related businesses, farms and shows/events, and to independent contractors and service providers. Equine businesses include (but are not limited to) farms and stables
offering any equine-related service (such as boarding, training, lessons, trail rides, pony parties, breeding, mare care, foaling, carriage horses, and equine entertainment). Equine-related businesses include (but are not limited to) tack, feed and other retail stores; trailer manufacturers, sales & service; shipping; feed mills; manufacturers of saddles, supplements, tack, and shoes; hay, straw, shavings, feed, and other products; insurance, financial, legal, ac- counting, and marketing services ; auction houses and sales sites; compe- tition venues and race tracks; veterinary practices and hospitals. Independent contractors include (but are not limited to) veterinarians,
farriers, equine therapists, saddle fitters, trainers, instructors, stall muck- ers, braiders, and equine dentists.
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