Legislative Outlook Panelists

Date: Friday, November 20, 2020

Time: 10:30AM

Tenure

First elected to the Maryland Senate in 2018. Member of the Senate since January 9, 2019 Member of the Maryland House of Delegates 1999 to 2015.

Current Assignments

2020 President Pro Tem
2019 Budget and Taxation Committee
2020 Chair, Health and Human Services Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee
2020 Capital Budget Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee
2019 Pensions Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee (Chair, 2019)
2019 Executive Nominations Committee
2020 Legislative Policy Committee
2019 Joint Committee on Pensions ( Senate Chair, 2019)
2019 Spending Affordability Committee
2019 Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics
2020 Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
2019 Marijuana Legalization Work Group
2019 Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland
2019 Women Legislators of Maryland
2019 Maryland Veterans Caucus

Past Senate Service

Education, Business, and Administration Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee, 2019-2020.

Public Service

Council for the Procurement of Health, Educational, and Social Services, 2020-; Task Force on Reconciliation and Equity, Morgan State University, 2020-.

Tenure

First elected to the Maryland Senate in 2018. Member of the Senate since January 9, 2019. Member of the Maryland House of Delegates 2015-2019.

Current Assignments

Public Service

Tenure

First elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014. Member of the House since 2015.

Current Assignments

2019 Environment and Transportation Committee
2019 Chair, Land Use and Ethics Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee
2020 Motor Vehicle and Transportation Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee
2019 Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review
2015 Joint Committee on Pensions
2015 Joint Committee on the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area
2015 Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness
2017 Workgroup on the Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act
2019 House Study Group to Study Economic Stability
2015 Women Legislators of Maryland
2015 Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus, Associate Member

Past House Service

Appropriations Committee, 2015-2019; Vice Chair, Transportation and the Environment Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee (Vice Chair, 2019), 2015-2019; Vice Chair, Oversight Committee on Pensions of the Appropriations Committee (Vice Chair, 2019), 2015-2019; Capital Budget Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, 2019.

Public Service

Complete Streets Program Regulations Work Group, 2010-; Board Member, Port Discovery Children’s Museum, 2018-; Board of Trustees, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2017-; Board Member, Advocates for Children & Youth, 2016-; AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, 2002-2003.

Memberships

New DEAL Leader, 2016-; Fells Point Residents Association, 2011-2014; Citizens Planning and Housing Association Board, 2012-2014; Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance, Board, 2013-2015; The DREAM Program, Executive Committee Board Member, Alumni Association, 2009-2010; American Constitution Society, Maryland Lawyer, Co-Chair, 2011-2013.

Awards

Maryland’s Top 100 Women, The Daily Record, 2019; Legislator of the Year, Hunger Solutions, 2017; Aspen-Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership, 2017; Leading Woman, The Daily Record, 2014; Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2013-2018; Forty Under Forty, Baltimore Magazine, 2013.