Background
Howard Kevin Anderson was born in 1967 [1] to William Anderson, a Somerset County farmer and president of the Somerset County Board of Education. At the age of 14, Anderson was withdrawn from Washington High School to attend McDonogh School near Baltimore. [2] [3]
Anderson is a third-generation seed farmer and has been farming since the late 1980s. [4] [5] He and his father, William, operate Wimberly Farms, which specializes in growing corn, soybeans, wheat, and barley, near Princess Anne, Maryland. [4] [6] Anderson got into farming and seed cleaning after graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park, [7] where he earned an associate degree in agriculture production and management. [5] In 1991, he launched a seed cleaning operation at Wimberly Farms. [3]
In 1995, Anderson was elected as director of the Somerset County Farm Bureau. [8] He also served on the boards of UniSouth Genetics, the Maryland Grain Producers Association, the Maryland Crop Improvement Association, and the Somerset County Property Review Board. He received a governor's citation for his work on the Pocomoke floodplain with The Nature Conservancy. [5] In 2002, Anderson was given the National Young Farmer Achievement Award by the American Farm Bureau Federation. [9] In February 2004, the Andersons were inducted into the Governor's Agriculture Hall of Fame. [10] In 2007, Anderson and his wife were one of four winners of the 51st National Outstanding Young Farmers Awards Congress. [11]
Anderson first became involved in politics in the summer of 2010, when he encouraged his friend Charles J. Otto to run for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 38A following the death of incumbent state delegate D. Page Elmore. After driving Otto to Baltimore to file the paperwork to run, Anderson served as Otto's campaign manager. [12]
In the legislature
In October 2025, following the death of state delegate Charles J. Otto, Anderson applied to serve the remainder of Otto's term in the Maryland House of Delegates. [13] The Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester County Republican Central Committees unanimously voted on November 10, 2025, to nominate Anderson to the seat. [14] Anderson was sworn in on November 25, 2025. [15]
Personal life
In January 1997, Anderson was charged with three felony counts of first-degree assault, two counts of reckless endangerment, and reckless driving after reportedly shooting a shotgun and chasing three college students eight miles in his pickup truck. [20] [21]
Anderson married Elizabeth Lorraine Skelton. [22] [7] Together, they have two daughters and live at another family farm in Princess Anne, Maryland. [7] He was close friends with his predecessor, Charles J. Otto, with Otto having been the best man at Anderson's wedding. [5]
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