Legislative Outlook Panelists

Date: Friday, November 20, 2020

Time: 10:30AM

Panelists

Senator Melony Griffith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-.

Senator Chris West

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

  • 2019 Judicial Proceedings Committee
  • 2019 Juvenile Justice Reform Council
  • 2019 Marijuana Legalization Work Group
  • 2019 Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission

Public Service

  • Maryland Historical Trust, 2019-; Governor’s Family Violence Council, 2019-.

Delegate Brooke Lierman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.