Susan Hoffmann, 63, was elected as mayor of Rockville in November 2007. This is Hoffmann’s first term serving as mayor, and fourth term serving on the Mayor and Council. She was first elected as a Rockville councilmember in November 2001.

Hoffmann is a member of the Montgomery County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League (MML), and serves on the MML Legislative Committee. She is active with the Washington Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (COG), where she serves on the Board of Directors and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board.  She also is a member of the Community and Economic Development Committee of the National League of Cities.

Hoffmann has always been a strong supporter of environmental issues and campaigned for mayor advocating for a “Clean and Green Rockville.”  As mayor, she has continued championing the fight against climate change and is an active proponent of Rockville’s Sustainable Strategy.  Hoffmann also continues her strong advocacy for the arts.  During her terms as a Rockville councilmember, she served as the head of a task force that worked to develop a policy requiring developers to include funding for art in new projects. In 2004, her leadership helped formulate Public Art in Private Development. She also has worked to adopt regulations that would require the undergrounding of utility wires and equipment.  Most recently, she served as one of the Mayor and Council representatives on Representatives of Rockville Zoning Ordinance Review (RORZOR), which has been working on rewriting the City’s zoning ordinance.

Hoffmann’s professional career includes her current position as the marketing and communications manager of the Silver Spring Regional Services Center (SSRSC), the office providing local government services for the Silver Spring and Takoma Park region. The SSRSC includes the Silver Spring Redevelopment Office that established the implementation and monitoring of the redevelopment and revitalization of downtown Silver Spring. She collaborates daily with the development team, governmental agencies, and key private participants such as the American Film Institute and Discovery Communications, Inc.

In December 1986, Hoffmann joined Montgomery County as a legislative analyst in the Office of Intergovernmental Relations. She represented the County's interests before the Maryland General Assembly, the Governor and the state agencies' staff.

Hoffmann's past experience includes tenures as a Congressional Aide to two members of the U.S. House of Representatives; a public affairs assistant to the 1980 White House Conference on Families; and a feature writer with the Bucks County Courier and Doylestown Intelligencer (suburban Philadelphia dailies).
Hoffmann has a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Temple University and has done post-graduate work in Basic Economic Development through the University of Maryland's University College.

Hoffmann and her family have resided in the West End of Rockville since 1988.  She is the proud grandmother of Joseph Emerson Hoffmann and Anthony Jon Hoffmann.

Hoffmann's membership and activities (current and former) include: