Tenure

First elected to the House of Delegates, 2010. Member of the House of Delegates since 2007: appointed October 2, 2007.

Current Assignments

2017 Majority Leader

2015 Economic Matters Committee

2015 Chair, Property and Casualty Insurance Subcommittee of the Economic Matters Committee

2015 Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee of the Economic Matters Committee

2014 House Committee on Rules and Executive Nominations

2017 Legislative Policy Committee

2017 Spending Affordability

2015 House Chair, Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology

2016 House Chair, Joint Audit Committee

2015 Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics

2017 Financial Consumer Protection Commission

Past House Service

Affordable Care Act (ACA) Workgroup, 2018; Punitive Damages Workgroup, 2016-2017; House Parliamentarian, 2014-2017; House Chair, Commission on Maryland Retirement Security and Savings, 2015-2016; Ways and Means Committee, 2007-2015; Tax Credit Evaluation Committee (2013-2015, House Chair), 2013-2017; Chair, Revenues Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, 2011-2015; Vice Chair's Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, 2011-2015; Co-Chair, Task Force to Study Methods to Reduce the Rate of Uninsured Drivers, 2015; Finance Resources Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, 2009-2010; Education Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, 2008; Joint Committee on Federal Relations, 2008-2015.

Public Service

Tax Credit Evaluation Committee, Co-Chair, 2013-; Chair, County Affairs Committee, Montgomery County Delegation, 2011-; Chair, Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Montgomery County, 2006-.

Memberships

Vice-President, District 16 Democratic Club, 2007-; Montgomery County Young Democrats; Next Generation Montgomery; Maryland State Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Association.

Awards

Illinois Lincoln Laureate, Northwestern University, 1997; Most Promising Legislator, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, 2010; Consumer Hero, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, 2013-2014.

Biographical Information

Born, Silver Spring, Maryland, December 30, 1974; Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School; Northwestern University, B.A., Political Science and History, 1997; Harvard Law School, J.D., 2000 (Editor, Journal on Legislation); Attorney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, 2000-; Married, Two children.