Election
On June 10,2008,in a non-partisan primary election Jackson-Stanley and incumbent Mayor Cleveland Rippons won the right to face each other in the July general election. Rippons received 696 votes,Jackson-Stanley 674 votes and Octavene Saunders finished third with 128 votes. [6] Under Cambridge local election laws,only the top two vote-getters qualify for a run-off general election. Rippons,an eight-year incumbent,was criticized during the campaign for his support of the expansion of development in and around Cambridge. [5] On July 8,2008 voters chose Jackson-Stanley over Rippons by a 1,383 to 1,231 margin. [7] Although Cambridge is composed equally of black and white residents,neither candidate felt that the other brought up race as an issue. [4] Residents agreed that economic growth and other concerns were more important than gender or race. [8] Jackson-Stanley was sworn in on July 21,2008. [9] She won a second term in July 2012. [10] Jackson-Stanley served a third term from 2016 to 2020. She was defeated in a runoff election by a 57% to 43% margin in 2020 by local businessman and volunteer firefighter Andrew Bradshaw.
In June 2024,Jackson-Stanley was appointed by Governor Wes Moore to the Maryland State Board of Elections's board of directors to succeed Janet Millenson,who died in April 2024. [11]
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