COMPTROLLER BROOKE LIERMAN
Maryland State Comptroller
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Comptroller Brooke Lierman is a disability and civil rights attorney, mother of two, and state legislator. Brooke joined the General Assembly in 2015, spent five years as a Member of the Appropriations Committee before assuming a leadership role on the Environment and Transportation Committee in 2019. She is also the House Chair for the Joint Committee on Pensions, sits on the Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness, and founded and formerly co-chaired the Maryland Transit Caucus.
Brooke has successfully passed landmark legislation to invest in and improve public transit; end suspension and expulsion of young students; fund evidence-based gun violence prevention programs; aid sex trafficking victims; close loopholes in our family and paid leave laws and much more. In 2019, working with environmental groups and small businesses around the state, she passed the nation’s first statewide ban on Styrofoam food and beverage containers, and in 2020 she passed the HOME Act, banning housing discrimination based on the renter’s source of income.
Brooke is running to ensure that in a post-pandemic Maryland, the Comptroller is leading Maryland’s efforts to raise up every family, community, and small business – in particular those who have been left behind. Her creativity and bold vision will advance a long-term agenda that cultivates a more financially resilient economy, in part by addressing systemic disinvestment and racial inequity in communities across Maryland.
Brooke is a powerful advocate for her constituents and a champion for families and small businesses around the state. Amidst the health and economic crises created by COVID-19, she has organized food relief for constituents and led the successful effort to bring World Central Kitchen to Baltimore to feed thousands in need. If given the chance to become the state’s financial guardian, Brooke will lead with a culture of transparency and purpose that leverages the full power of the Comptroller’s office to unlock opportunity for every Maryland resident, family and business.