Candidate · State Senate, District 3
Karen Lewis Young
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 3 (since January 2023)
- Occupation
- State Senator; former banking and market research executive
- Lives in
- Frederick County
Background
- B.A. in history, Franklin and Marshall College (1973); M.A. in American history (1974) and M.B.A. in marketing (1977), Columbia University. source: msa.maryland.gov
- Marketing and research career including chief marketing officer of Farmers & Mechanics National Bank (1996-1999) and director of marketing research at Capital One (2007-2008). source: msa.maryland.gov
- City of Frederick Board of Aldermen (president pro tem), 2009 to 2013. source: msa.maryland.gov
- Member of the House of Delegates, District 3A, 2015 to 2023; State Senator since January 11, 2023. source: msa.maryland.gov
- Serves on the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee. source: mgaleg.maryland.gov
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