John Rohrer served for 37 years with Maryland’s nonpartisan legislative services agency, most significantly for 20 years as coordinator of fiscal policy analysis in the Office of Policy Analysis, Department of Legislative Services. He started his career evaluating public school funding. He helped build the state of Maryland’s legislative budget forecasting system and helped develop data systems for compiling, reporting, and assessing local financial capacity and fiscal health. He received his Master’s in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland – College Park prior to joining the legislative services agency. In 2015, the National Conference of State Legislatures awarded him the Legislative Staff Achievement Award.