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W. Lee Gaines, Jr. is President of Gaines & Company of Reisterstown, Maryland with an office in Raleigh, NC. A solid professional with more than thirty years in the construction business. Gaines & Co was selected as the Home Builders Association of Maryland's Contractor of the Year in 2004. The company is also listed by Engineering News Record as a top ten utility contractor in the nation. Lee's credentials are representative of the accomplishments of the Trustees with whom he serves. He is a past president and board member of the Associated Utility Contractors of Maryland, as well as a long-time board member of the National Utility Contractors Association. He has received both of the AUC's most prestigious awards, the "Ditchdigger of the Year" and the Founders Award. A graduate of Yale University, Lee takes an active role in education. He was for eight years trustee of Boys' Latin School a school that has educated Maryland's leaders for one hundred and sixty years, and also a past trustee of Gilman School, founded in Maryland in 1897 as the first American country day school. Still an active tennis player, Lee is "retired" from coaching AAU girls basketball and others of his four children's recreational teams. One of Lee's sons attends Colorado State University. | 