Introducing The Daily Record’s 2025 Power 100 List

For the fifth consecutive year, we offer readers a look at the 100 men and women who are shaping our businesses, nonprofits, law firms and other key institutions. 

The Power 100 List for 2025 spotlights the people who play an outsized role in the culture, lifestyle, civic conversations and economic fortunes of Maryland.

This year we made a few changes to the list. We removed elected officials as they already have a level of power. We also opted to drop our ranking of the top 15 and just focus on the people on the list.

The list reflects the deep reservoir of leadership across our state. As our technologies rapidly change, our social challenges mount and our state comes under new competitive pressures, these are the leaders we count on to prepare us for the future.

The Daily Record Power 100 was chosen by our editorial leadership team. We reached out to readers and others for input and perspective. Many of the Power 100 are familiar to all of us, but some are known largely within their organizations or communities.

We’ve tried to capture the essence of these leaders and the influence they wield. While there’s a lot of biographical information, we wanted to offer more than the contents of a resume. We sought to explore how these men and women see their accomplishments, the lessons they’ve learned and what they think is the biggest challenge facing Maryland.

This list is the culmination of Power Lists throughout 2025 that showcased the most powerful figures in law, higher education, health care, finance and other fields.

If you know of someone you think is a strong candidate for inclusion on our Power Lists, we’d love to hear from you. Just go to thedailyrecord.com/power-list-recommendation-form/ and tell us about the individual.

We hope you enjoy this publication, and we welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Patrick Brannan
Managing Editor
 

See the Power 100 List digital edition here.

Do you know a person who you feel should appear on one of The Daily Record’s future Power Lists? Take a few minutes and tell us why in this form.

2025 Power 100 List