District 1

Mary A. Lehman Prince George's County Council District 1, Democrat 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive County Council 2nd Floor Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Phone: (301) 952-3887 Fax: (301) 952-4801 TTY: (301) 925-5167 Email: CouncilDistrict1@co.pg.md.us

Constituent areas include Adelphi, Beltsville, Calverton, College Park, Laurel, Montpelier, South Laurel, Vansville and West Laurel.

Biography

Mary A. Lehman (D-District 1) was elected to her first four-year term on the Prince George's County Council in the 2010 General Election. Council Member Lehman represents Adelphi, Beltsville, Calverton, College Park, Laurel, Montpelier, South Laurel, West Laurel, and Vansville.

Council Member Lehman will serve as Vice-Chair of the Health, Education and Human Services Committee (HEHS) for the 2011 Legislative Year. As a grassroots activist Mary Lehman worked for 20 years to improve life in the Laurel area. Recently, Council Member Lehman worked as a legislative aide to State Delegate Josephine Pena-Melnyk , and previously as education liaison for former Prince George's County Council Chair Tom Dernoga. A former journalist, Lehman covered Congress.

Council Member Lehman served on the board of the West Laurel Civic Association for 16 years, including four as president from 2005-2009. She is active in the Bond Mill Elementary PTO, where she has served on the legislative, hospitality, carnival, and playground renovation committees. Lehman first became involved in grassroots politics in 1992 as a spokesperson for Citizens Against the Stadium, a group that fought for two years to stop the Washington Redskins from building a 78,600-seat football stadium in East Laurel.

Lehman is a graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Maryland College Park (1987). She is a member of Resurrection Catholic Church in Burtonsville and lives in Laurel with her husband and four children.

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