Career
Phillips attended Virginia Union University,where he was valedictorian of his class and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1983,and the University of Maryland School of Law,where he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1989. [4] [5] After graduating,Phillips worked as a minority business program manager at IBM,eventually becoming the director of its federal small business program. [6] Before becoming a member of the Maryland House of Delegates,he worked as the Director of the Minority Business Development Agency Business Center in Baltimore,Maryland. [7]
Phillips first became involved with politics in 2002,when he ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 10. [8] He ran on a ticket with state senator Delores G. Kelley and state delegates Adrienne A. Jones and Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, [9] but failed to advance out of the primary,coming in fourth with 17.3 percent of the vote. [6]
In October 2012,Baltimore County executive Kevin Kamenetz named Phillips to serve as the chairman of the Baltimore County Planning Board. [4]
In 2022,he again ran for the Maryland House of Delegates on a slate with Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates Adrienne Jones,then-state delegate Benjamin Brooks,and nonprofit executive Jennifer White. [3] He won the Democratic primary on July 19,receiving 11.8 percent of the vote. [10]
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