Thomas Hucker Net Worth

Tom Hucker draws upon years of experience as a community organizer, nonprofit entrepreneur and state and local policymaker to advocate for safer chemicals. He was previously the lead organizer for Progressive Montgomery as well as campaign director for several political campaigns.

He studied Urasenke-style Japanese tea ceremony while at Boston University and went on to complete a residency at Tokyo university of fine arts. His designs often combine refined forms with peaceful Japanese aesthetics.

Early Life and Education

Thomas Hucker is an award-winning designer and master woodworker who has been crafting fine furniture since the 1970s. Inspired by his concert pianist grandmother to develop an instinctual sense of genuine quality, Thomas received the Gasson Scholarship to study at Boston College where he led student campaigns against apartheid and protecting the environment.

Hucker attended college where he took classes at Urasenke School of Japanese Tea Ceremony and studied in Tokyo under a Fulbright scholarship. Additionally, he completed an artisanry program at Domus Academy in Milan, Italy.

Hucker passed House Bill (HB) 184 to require Maryland to finalize plans to offer universal pre-Kindergarten to four-year olds living in Maryland and House Bill 1250 to strengthen Maryland law against so-called Strategic Legal Attack Platform lawsuits, or SLAPP suits, filed to intimidate environmentalists and civic activists.

Professional Career

Mr. Hucker has extensive experience as both a community organizer and nonprofit executive, state and local policymaker and member of Montgomery County Council and Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments – and serves as Vice Chair for Washington Suburban Transit Commission.

Progressive Maryland was an advocacy group created in 2001 that brought together thousands of individuals through partnerships with community, labor, civil rights and faith-based organizations in Maryland. Their efforts included door-to-door organizing, grassroots leadership development and direct advocacy with lawmakers.

He is the author of the inaugural state living wage law in America, which attracted national media coverage. The Living Wage bill mandates most state contractors pay their employees wages sufficient for most to survive without food stamps.

Achievement and Honors

Hucker has long advocated for increased living wages, children’s health initiatives and employee discrimination protections. Additionally, he has supported efforts to remove lead from school drinking fountains, increase public transit funding and expand solar energy use.

He has helped protect Ten Mile Creek, Montgomery County’s backup water reservoir. Recently he held his campaign event at Kaldi’s Social House – a Black- and immigrant-owned small business in Silver Spring.

He has received many honors, such as the Furniture Society’s 2016 Award of Distinction. Currently he sits on the Council Transportation and Environment Committee; additionally he represents District 5 on Maryland General Assembly since 2006. After serving two terms as Annapolis mayor he became county council president a position which has given him “massive authority,” according to him.

Personal Life

Thomas Hucker has long combined his interest in design with his furniture-making practice. While studying at Boston University, he took classes from the Urasenke School of Japanese Tea Ceremony; later receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study at Tokyo University of Fine Arts. Hucker has exhibited widely, and his works can be found in such collections as those belonging to Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, Renwick Gallery of Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

He serves on the Deep Water Point Trustee and Board Member for Progressive States Network, an advocacy and research network for state lawmakers. Additionally, he is endorsed by The Gazette, Montgomery County Education Association/Montgomery Federation of Teachers; Maryland League of Conservation Voters, National Organization for Women/Fraternal Order of Police/Equality Maryland among many others.

Net Worth

Tom Hucker’s estimated net worth ranges between $1 and $6 Million dollars. His fortune was made through his career as a Politician.

District 20 includes Takoma Park, Hillandale and parts of Silver Spring in Maryland and is represented by Maryland House of Delegates member Robert Hucker who was an outspoken supporter and original co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, allowing undocumented students to attend state universities at in-state tuition rates. He responded to an Ethiopian American Council (EAC) Q&A by outlining his positions on several issues important to EAC before its endorsement by providing detailed answers through Tadias Q&A which provided his responses on various issues of interest related to his legislation that are of importance for EAC endorsement, including his positions on various issues that affect EAC members he presented his positions on various issues related to his bill relating to its endorsement.