Sara Martinez Tucker is a former chief executive officer of the National Math and Science Initiative. She was formerly the under secretary of education at the U.S. Department of Education and a former president and chief executive officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). She is a member on the following boards of directors:American Electric Power,Xerox,Sprint,and the Council for Aid to Education. She also serves on the University of Notre Dame's board of trustees.
Craig Lamont Rice is an American politician and former member of the Montgomery County Council,serving from 2010 to 2022. Elected in 2006 to the Maryland House of Delegates,he served one four-year term and represented District 15 in western and northern Montgomery County.
Tom Hucker is an American elected official and a Democrat from the U.S. state of Maryland. He served from 2007 until 2014 as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 20,which included neighborhoods in Takoma Park and Silver Spring. He also previously served as a member of the Montgomery County Council,representing District 5 from 2014 to 2022.
Ana Sol Gutierrez is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Maryland who was the first Latina to ever be elected to the Maryland General Assembly. She served four terms in the Maryland House of Delegates,representing Montgomery County in Maryland's District 18. Gutierrez sat on the Appropriations Committee and was chair of the Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force beginning in 2006. In 2003,Gutierrez was the first Latina elected to state office.
Rushern Leslie Baker III is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected county executive of Prince George's County,Maryland in 2010 and won re-election in 2014. In 2018 and 2022,he mounted an unsuccessful primary campaign to become Governor of Maryland.
DeRionne P. Pollard is the President of Nevada State College. She previously served as the President of Montgomery College from 2012 to 2021.
Rushern "Rush" Baker IV is an American painter and past candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates to represent District 22 in Prince George's County.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Maria Lorena González is an American lawyer and former politician who was a member of the Seattle City Council from position 9. She was the first Latina elected to the council. She was a candidate for mayor of Seattle in 2021 but was defeated by Bruce Harrell 59 percent to 41 percent.
The 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 6,2018. The date included the election of the governor,lieutenant governor,and all members of the Maryland General Assembly. Incumbent governor Larry Hogan and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford,both Republicans,were re-elected to a second term against Democrat Ben Jealous,the former NAACP CEO,and his running mate Susan Turnbull.
Irene M. Zoppi Rodríguez,is a U.S. Army officer and academic. She is the first Puerto Rican woman to attain the rank of general in the U.S. Army Reserve. Since February 2019,she has served as a deputy commanding general for United States Army South,as the director of the Army Reserve Engagement Cell for Individual Mobilization Augmentees. Zoppi is an adjunct professor at Strayer University. She has worked as an instructor for the National Intelligence University where she directed the university's academic center within the National Security Agency.
Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American poet and author. In September 2022,the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People’s Poet Laureate.
Hans Davis Riemer is a German-American non-profit executive,political activist,and author. He served as an at-large member of the Montgomery County Council in Maryland from 2010 to 2022. He unsuccessfully ran for Montgomery County executive in 2022,with a platform including affordable housing,environmental policy,and police reform.
Mary Jane Patricia Dockeray was an American environmental educator,founder of the Blandford Nature Center and Environmental Education Center in Grand Rapids,Michigan. In 2012,she was admitted to the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
Margaret Sellers Walker Morris,born Margaret Elizabeth Regular,was an American city and state official,based in Michigan. She was also a professor at Grand Valley State University. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.
Eric Dinowitz is an American teacher and politician. Dinowitz represents the 11th district of the New York City Council. Dinowitz is a registered Democrat. Dinowitz was elected in a special election held on March 23,2021,after the resignation of Andrew Cohen,who was elected to the New York Supreme Court. Dinowitz assumed office on April 15,2021 after weeks of the New York City Board of Elections counting ranked-choice voting ballots which were instituted for municipal elections beginning in 2021.
Sara Parker Pauley is the director of the Missouri Department of Conservation and former president of the Association of Fish &Wildlife Agencies. In each of those roles she was the first woman to serve.
The Maryland county executive elections of 2022 were held on November 8,2022. Democratic and Republican primaries were held on July 19,2022.
Deni Taveras is an Dominican American politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 47B in Prince George's County,Maryland. She was previously a member of the Prince George's County Council,representing District 2 from 2014 to 2022.
