Member Profile

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Shana Davis-Cook has served as the Manager for Chevy Chase Village since 2010. The community consists of approximately 2,000 residents (per 2020 census). The Village is an historic community consisting of 720 homes across a single square mile area with a median household income of $250,000. Chevy Chase Village was the first streetcar suburb to the nation’s capital and directly borders the District of Columbia. Shana manages a staff of almost 30, including 11 sworn police officers, and is responsible for an annual operating budget exceeding over $5 million. Chevy Chase Village was listed in Forbes Magazine’s “Top 25 Places to Retire Rich”; was ranked as one of the nation’s wealthiest neighborhoods and ranked first in “brainpower” with nearly two-thirds of its residents holding graduate degrees in the U.S. Census American Community Survey for 2006-2010. Shana has worked in various capacities for Chevy Chase Village since 1999, including Communications Clerk, Administrative Assistant, Director of Administration, and Assistant Village Manager. She has served five terms on the Montgomery Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League’s Nominating Committee (2016-2020), served on the Chapter’s 2021-2022 By-Laws Committee, and is completing her second term (first full term) as an at-large member of the Chapter’s Executive Board. Shana is married with two sons, the youngest of whom attends a Montgomery County Public High School. Shana resides in Silver Spring and has served as vice president (2016-2017) and at-large member (2017-present) of her community’s citizens association, served two terms as president (2015-2016, 2016-2017) for the joint PTA for Roscoe Nix and Cresthaven Elementary Schools and as a delegate to the Montgomery County Council of PTAs representing Springbrook High School (2017-2018, 2018-2019) and representing Roscoe Nix and Cresthaven Elementary Schools and Francis Scott Key Middle School (2017-2018), served since 2017 on the Friends of White Oak non-profit board, currently as their secretary, and she is serving her second term as operations co-chair for her local community’s pool board.