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Major F. Riddick Jr. Honored In Maryland

Major F. Riddick Jr. of Fort Washington, Maryland, son of Viola C. Riddick and Major F. Riddick of Chesapeake, Va. was one of several persons who was recently honored during the Prince George County, Maryland Community Foundation third Annual Civic Leadership Awards Dinner. The event was held at the newly opened fabulous Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention Center Hotel on the Potomac, just outside of Washington, D.C. Well over 500 persons were in attendance.; they included prominent past and present Maryland elected officials, administrators, community leaders and county residents.
  The awards salute individual servant-leaders who enhance the quality of life in the county, working tirelessly and unselfishly behind the scene and in the forefront, The Awards Dinner provides an opportunity to celebrate the invaluable contributions of honorees and the county’s nonprofit sector.
  Mr. Riddick was awarded the foundation’s Civic Leadership Award in recognition of his tireless work spanning more than two decades in Prince George County, throughout the State of Maryland and nationally. He was the first African American to serve as the Maryland Governor’s Chief of Staff, and to date to ever hold that high ranking state position. He is also the first African American appointed Chief Administrative Officer  for Prince George County. Additionally, he served two years as the National President for the National Forum for Black Public Administrators.
 

Posted May 21, 2008

Currently, he serves as the managing member of Great Foods (BWT), TIC, a franchise owner of Quiznos restaurants and others located at the BWI and Pittsburgh International Airports and is president and CEO of the company he founded in 2002, Strategic Solutions Center, where his sister, Ms. Katrina Riddick of Baltimore who holds a law degree and a master’s in business administration, serves as senior advisor and managing director.
  Mr. Riddick presently serves as chairman of the Prince George County Mentoring Matters Partnership, which has sponsored two county-wide mentoring forums that attracted almost 2,000 young persons. He serves on the trustee board and is vice chair of the Stewardship Finance Commission at his church, the Ebenezer A.M.E. Church of Fort Washington, Md.
  Born and raised in Chesapeake, where he graduated from Crestwood High School in 1968 and Virginia Tech in 1972 and 1973 receiving both the bachelor’s and master’s degree in urban affairs, he is married to Tidewater native, Mrs. Manervia Wilson Riddick, a Norfolk State University alumna, originally of Portsmouth, Va and their daughter, Ms. Myrica Riddick, who currently resides in Atlanta.

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