Nancy MacWood

Nancy has lived in Cleveland Park for over 25 years. She and her husband, Bob Brandon, raised three daughters in Cleveland Park where they attended Beauvoir and National Cathedral School. Nancy was an ANC commissioner in Cleveland Park from 2001 through 2022 where she served as the chair of its Planning and Zoning Committee and Historic Preservation Committee. She served as ANC chair twice for multiple years.

She served as chair of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City (C100) from 2012 to 2016. While C100 chair, she created an ad hoc Affordable Housing Subcommittee that led to the renewal of the dormant Housing Subcommittee. She is currently C100's Vice Chair and a member of its Housing, Zoning, Transportation, and Planning Subcommittees.

She is also a past chair of C100's Vision Awards and the Vision Awards Selection Committee. She was on the Steering Committee of the Grassroots Planning Coalition, and a member of the OCFO's Residential Real Property Tax Advisory Council, and served as a board member of the Rosedale Conservancy and the Tregaron Conservancy.

Previously, Nancy served as a Council-appointee on the DC Task Force on the Revision of the Comprehensive Plan and the Task Force on Zoning Regulation Revision. She is currently a member of Ward 3 Housing Justice, a local group that advocates for affordable housing.