David D. Smith has served as Executive Chairman since January 2017
and Chairman of the Board since September 1990. Until January 2017, Mr. Smith
served as President and Chief Executive Officer since 1988. Mr. Smith founded
Comark Communications, Inc., a company engaged in the manufacture of high-power
transmitters for UHF television stations, and was an officer and director of
Comark until 1986. He also was a principal in other television stations prior
to serving as a General Manager of WPMY (formerly WCWB-TV) from 1984 until
1986. In 1986, Mr. Smith was instrumental in the formation of Sinclair. Mr.
Smith serves as a member of the Board of Directors of MileOne Autogroup, Inc.,
and the majority of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Cunningham Communications
Inc., and Keyser Investment Group, Inc.; is a partner of Gerstell Development,
LP.; and is the majority shareholder of the Baltimore Sun.
Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. has served as a Director since June 2022.
Dr. Carson recently served as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) from 2017 to 2021. At HUD, he led the
agency in many programs focused on advancing economic opportunity; providing
safe, fair and affordable housing; spurring reinvestment in communities;
reducing homelessness; assisting and promoting self-sufficiency to underserved
and vulnerable populations; and helping disaster victims, while emphasizing
fiscal responsibility and reduction of regulatory barriers. During his tenure
as HUD Secretary, Dr. Carson also led the collaboration of eight federal
agencies to establish the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory
Barriers to Affordable Housing. Prior to serving as HUD Secretary, Dr. Carson
had a distinguished career in the field of medicine where he performed
thousands of surgeries and served in many leadership positions, including
Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions from 1984 to 2013 and as a Professor of Neurological Surgery,
Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions from 1999 to 2013. Dr. Carson also currently serves on the board
of directors of D.R. Horton, Inc., Covenant Logistics Group, Inc., and Galectin
Therapeutics, Inc. and he has prior experience serving on the board of
directors of Costco Wholesale Corporation and Kellogg Company.
Hon. Benson E. Legg has served as a Director since January 2019. Judge Legg clerked for the honorable Frank A. Kaufman of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 1973 until 1974, after which he joined the law firm of Venable, Baetjer & Howard (now known as Venable LLP) in 1975. He became a partner of the firm in 1982 and remained in private practice until 1991 when he was confirmed as a Federal Judge. He was nominated to the Federal Court by President George H. W. Bush in September 1991 and was a member of the Court until he retired in February 2013. Judge Legg served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 2003 to 2010. Since retiring, Judge Legg, through his own, single-member LLC (Benson Everett Legg Consulting, LLC), has served as an arbitrator and mediator with JAMS, a global provider of dispute resolution services, and he is a board member of the Maryland Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
