Jesse Milan, Jr., Vestry Class of 2014

Jesse Milan, Jr., JD is a lifelong Episcopalian with a record of service to the chu rch at national, diocesan and parish levels. He is current Senior Warden and vestry member (2008-2011) of Memorial Episcopal Church, and served previously on the vestry (2001-04). A lawyer and global HIV/AIDS thought leader, he is Vice President for Community Health Systems at the Altarum Institute, and heads its Washington, DC office where he oversees a $19 million budget and staff of 89 public health professionals.   A member of Memorial Church since 1998, he has been a central figure in Memorial Players as director/choreographer of 2010’s highly successfully production of “Annie,” as the title role in “The Music Man,” and as choreographer of “CATS”, “Sound of Music,” “Mame,” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (remember his high kicks?). 

During his seventeen years in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, he was elected to represent the diocese as a Deputy to General Convention (1994 and 1997), and twice chaired the House of Deputies Committee on the Consecration of Bishops. He served two terms on the Pennsylvania Diocesan Council (1989-94) and on the Council Executive Committee, was elected to two terms as Diocesan Church Advocate (1988-94), and served on the search committees for Bishop Suffragan (1987) and Bishop Coadjutor (1996). At St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, he was on two rector search committees, served nine years on the Vestry and three years as Rector’s Warden. At the national level, he served two terms on the Church Deployment Board and was president of the board of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition. Since coming to the Diocese of Maryland he was elected to the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court (2002-2004); and served Memorial as co-chair of the Rector search committee, usher and lector. He and his spouse of 22 years, Bill Roberts, live in Ellicott City.