Candidate · State Senate, District 9
Katie Fry Hester
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 9 (since January 2019)
- Occupation
- State Senator; partnership and sustainability consultant
- Lives in
- Howard County
Background
- B.Sc. in agricultural and biological engineering, Cornell University (1997). source: msa.maryland.gov
- Career in sustainability and partnership consulting, including Americas Director of The Partnering Initiative. source: msa.maryland.gov
- State Senator since January 9, 2019; Deputy Majority Whip since 2023. source: msa.maryland.gov
- Chairs the Senate Rules Committee (2026) and co-chairs the Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology; serves on the Education, Energy and the Environment Committee. source: msa.maryland.gov
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