Tenure

First elected to the Maryland Senate in 2018. Member of the Senate since January 9, 2019. Member of the Maryland House of Delegates 2007-2019.

Current Assignments

2020 Vice Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee (Member, (2019)

2019 Joint Committee on Federal Relations (Chair, 2019)

2019 Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review

2019 Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus

2019 Maryland Veterans Caucus

2019 Women Legislators of Maryland, Associate Member

2024 Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus

Past Senate Service

Task Force to Study Crime Classification and Penalties, 2019-2021; Marijuana Legalization Work Group, 2019.

Past House Service

Judiciary Committee, 2007-2015; Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, 2007-2011; Chair, Estates and Trusts Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, 2011-2015; Economic Matters Committee, 2015-2018; Chair, Consumer Protection & Commercial Law Subcommittee of the Economic Matters Committee, 2015-2018; Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee of the Economic Matters Committee, 2015-2018.

Public Service

Maryland Access to Justice Commission, 2020-2021; Task Force to Study Crime Classification and Penalties, 2019-2021; State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board, 2013-2019; Task Force on Prisoner Re-Entry, 2010-2012.

Memberships

American Bar Association; California Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Association; NAACP Redress Committee; Rock Creek Palisades Civic Association, Kensington, MD; Temple Shalom, Chevy Chase, MD.

Awards

Champion for Children, Department of Human Resources and Maryland State Bar Association, 2010.

Biographical Information

Born, Silver Spring, Maryland, December 31, 1979; Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring; Emory University, B.A., Political Science and History, (Phi Beta Kappa); Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkely, J.D., 2003; Editor, California Law Review; Member, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and California Criminal Law Review; Member, Temple Shalom, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Married; three children.