Jennifer Ray Beckman first came to Ocean City at six months old and has been spending summers on the island ever since.  She holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from American University, where she studied abroad in England at Cambridge University, and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University where she focused on organizational governance. 

With over twenty years in the non-profit space, she is now principal of Clear Point Management, LLC, a boutique association management firm.  Jennifer is the  executive director of the Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia Chapters of the American College of Cardiology and holds the credential Certified Association Executive (CAE) from the American Society of Association Executives, and is an Everything DiSC Certified Practitioner. 

When she and husband Jon Beckman lived in Patuxent River, Maryland, and Washington, DC they enjoyed their Searay runabout out of the Navel Stations on the Patuxent and Severn.  Jennifer and Jon and their high school aged children Audrey and Connor now live in West Chester, PA, her hometown. 

Never one to say no to volunteering, Jennifer has been member of the St Mary’s County, Maryland Environmental Council, Scholarship Chair VX-1 Spouses Club, Elder of the Presbyterian Church USA, Board Member at Goshen Friends School, New Member Advisor for Chi Omega Fraternity Eta Lamba Chapter, and Co-Chair of the East Girls Tennis Team Booster Club. 

The Beckman Family joined the club in 2018 after Audrey and Connor fell in love with sailing.  Prior to becoming a Flag Officer, Jennifer was a member of the OCYC board as junior activities chair during COVID and subsequently communications/main sheet chair. 

Jennifer plays tennis and pickleball, loves to cook elaborate meals for friends and family, and enjoys traveling just about anywhere.

Debbie Stedman grew up all over the world as part of a military family until finally making  Ocean City her summer base of operations for the last quarter century.

She achieved her BA in Philosophy from the University of Mary Washington and her Juris Doctorate from Widener University Delaware School of Law. She started her career working for a private law firm in Malvern, PA and transitioned into litigation for the Office of the Public Defender in Lancaster County, PA where she eventually met her husband, Craig (not as a client.)

While public service was gratifying, she moved into more international legal work with Nichia America Corporation serving as the HR Manager and Legal Advisor for the American operations in LED sales and then Graham Packaging, Company as Manager of International Legal Affairs and Administration for Central and South America’s plastic bottle production and packaging. More recently, she has worked as an estate lawyer for a general practice firm in Philadelphia.

Somewhere in all this, she found the time to graduate from Leadership Lancaster, a year-long program designed to train and develop leaders to give back to their communities.

The Stedman family joined OCYC in 2018, after their oldest child got the bug for sailing at the Ocean City Sailing Foundation years before. Prior to her nomination in her current role, she served on the Board as Junior Sailing Activities Chair and then more recently as the Insurance Chair.

Debbie lives in Lititz, PA with her husband, two children, Ryan and Samantha, and a small zoo of animals. She is extremely active as a volunteer with her children’s school at countless special events and serves as the Cross-country coach. When not wrangling animals and serving as a family uber, she tries to pick up a game or two from those old days of tennis and sometimes looks at her old running shoes.

She has been heavily vested in junior sailing with two children in the program. She is extremely excited to do all she can to help make the program successful and to create lifelong memories for the participants and their families.