Gail Montgomery, Ph.D.

Biography:

With over 35 years of community college experience, Dr. Montgomery has extensive leadership experience in higher education, serving as a professor, a department-level administrator, an administrator in the Office of the President of Montgomery College, and presently as instructional dean for Social Sciences, History, Psychology, Education, Health Enhancement, Exercise Science and Physical Education.

Dr. Montgomery is committed to helping faculty, staff and administrators work together to change the lives of students and thus participates in outreach activities, works collaboratively with statewide and county education administrators and legislators and continues to volunteer in the Montgomery County community.

She presently serves on the Board of Directors of the Bernie Scholarship Awards program which assists people of low and moderate income to obtain funds for college and she also works with other local scholarship programs which provide funds to single mothers and to adults living in affordable housing.

A recipient of the Montgomery College Outstanding Faculty Service Award and a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Award in 1999, Dr. Montgomery completed Morgan State University’s Community College Leadership Fellows Program in 2004 and completed the Academy for Advanced Leadership in 2006. She earned her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology/English/Child Development from San Diego State University, her Masters of Education from Bowie State University and her Doctoral Degree in Natural Health from Clayton College.

Dr. Montgomery has published several textbooks on reading and vocabulary skills for English as a Second Language students and she is the author of several journal articles and essays, most addressing issues in children’s health and children’s reading and vocabulary skills.

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