Candidate · State Senate, District 10
Ben Brooks
What this job does: Your district's one senator in the Maryland Senate (47 members). Senators write and vote on state laws and taxes and propose changes to the state constitution for voters to decide, like the questions on this ballot. A term is four years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Senator, District 10 (since January 2023)
- Occupation
- Tax preparation business owner; accountant
- Lives in
- Baltimore County
Background
- Born in Sumter, South Carolina, in 1950; B.S. in accounting, South Carolina State University (1976). source: msa.maryland.gov
- Served in the U.S. Army, 1969 to 1972. source: msa.maryland.gov
- Owner of B & R Brooks Professional Tax Service since 1987; earlier an accountant at Joseph E. Seagram and Sons. source: msa.maryland.gov
- Member of the House of Delegates, District 10, 2015 to 2023. source: msa.maryland.gov
- State Senator since January 2023; chairs the Executive Nominations Committee (2026) and serves on the Education, Energy and the Environment Committee. source: msa.maryland.gov
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