Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley recently appointed Michael A. Curto to serve on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors. Mr. Curto is the Deputy Chair of the Business Department of Patton Boggs LLP, a global law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Curto also is a member of the Firm's Management Committee and head of the Firm's ERISA and Employee Benefits practice, representing corporate, nonprofit and government sponsors of pension and welfare benefit plans, Taft-Hartley funds, investment advisory firms, and insurance companies in all aspects of retirement, health and compensation issues. Mr. Curto also assists clients in a broad range of business planning and transactional matters and in related regulatory and policy projects.

He currently is the Chairman for the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Committee for Montgomery County, Maryland and a member of the Annual Fund Committee for the Georgetown Preparatory School, which he previously chaired. He also has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Family Caregivers Association. Mr. Curto has three children and resides with his wife, Sabine, in Potomac, Maryland. 

The Airports Authority Board of Directors consists of 13 members. Two are appointed by the Governor of Maryland, five are appointed by the Governor of Virginia, three are appointed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and three are appointed by the President of the United States.

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