EMILYs List Statement on Brooke Lierman’s Election as Maryland Comptroller

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November 9, 2022

EMILYs List Statement on Brooke Lierman’s Election as Maryland Comptroller

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates Brooke Lierman on her victory in the Maryland comptroller race. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
 
“EMILYs List congratulates Brooke Lierman on her election as Maryland comptroller. We know she is ready to rise to the moment and be a tireless advocate for families, communities, and small businesses, lifting up the people of Maryland as the state’s first woman chief financial officer.”
 
Brooke Lierman is a mother, disability and civil rights attorney, and a passionate legislator. She moved to Montgomery County, MD in middle school and graduated from Walt Whitman High School. She attended Dartmouth College and then spent years as a grassroots organizer. Lierman attended law school at the University of Texas School of Law while she fought for clients in need of better housing as part of the Legal Aid Fair Housing Clinic. She returned to Maryland and completed a clerkship in the U.S. Federal District Court in Baltimore and Greenbelt. In 2014, Lierman was elected to represent District 46 in the Maryland House of Delegates, and she was reelected in 2018.
 
EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, works to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country with a goal of fighting for our rights and our communities. Our work is centered around a fundamental vision: Run. Win. Change the World. EMILYs List has raised over $700 million in service to that vision and has helped Democratic women win competitive elections by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running one of the largest independent expenditure campaigns for Democrats, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 159 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and nearly 1,400 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. Visit www.emilyslist.org for more information.