Debbie Ritchie, 49, of Pasadena, was elected the new Maryland PTA president at the Maryland PTA?s recent annual fall conference in Towson.

She is the parent of a 12th-grader at Chesapeake High School in Anne Arundel and joined the local PTA in 1997 when her daughter was in third grade.

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