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Scott R. Jensen, Interim Secretary of Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation |
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Scott R. Jensen
Interim Secretary, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
Scott Jensen is currently serving as Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
(DLLR). Before becoming the Deputy Secretary at DLLR under Alexander M. Sanchez, he worked for Salisbury University, where he was responsible to the President for creating and
maintaining mutually productive relationships with the university’s national, state, and local public partners.
He also served with former DLLR Secretary Thomas E. Perez as a Special Assistant, where he shepherded the expansion of unemployment insurance benefits to part-time workers,
the Workplace Fraud Act of 2009 that addresses the practice of misclassification of employees as independent contractors, and the alignment of adult and correctional education
with the workforce development system in Maryland. After these bills became law, he worked to insure robust implementation of these and other administration priorities. For
instance, with the state’s procurement officers he worked to make sure the promise of Governor O’Malley’s first-in-the-nation Living Wage law was realized.
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He earned two four-year terms on Easton, Maryland’s city council. Always working collaboratively with the mayor, his colleagues on the council, and the business community, Scott
helped achieve true progress on Easton’s downtown revitalization, smart growth, historic preservation, economic development, and public safety.
He holds a bachelor’s in history from Illinois State University and a master’s in liberal education (“Great Books”) from St. John’s College. While he ultimately put his liberal
arts education to work in political life, it was his academic work that originally brought him to Maryland from New York City, where he was a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the
Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. Prior to his career in public service, from 1999 to 2001 Scott taught philosophy as a lecturer at Salisbury State University
on a joint appointment from the honors and philosophy departments.
Scott lives in Easton, Maryland with his wife Andrea Poe and their daughter Maxine. He still finds time to pursue his passion for classical political theory, and well as
Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
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