Senator Charles Sydnor Contact information

Charles E. Sydnor III was born on March 18, 1974, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He was raised in the West Hills community of Baltimore. He graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and attended Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1996. He also attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in policy science in 2000. He then attended the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2002. Sydnor is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity.

In his early career, Sydnor was a college intern to Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge William D. Quarles Jr., and was admitted to the Maryland Bar and District of Columbia Bar after graduating. He has worked as an attorney for Enterprise Community Partners since 2001, and worked as a consumer council for the Attorney General of Maryland from 2010 to 2012. From 2007 to 2013, Sydnor served on the Citizen’s Advisory Committees of the Chesapeake Executive Council and the Baltimore Corridor Transit Study for the Red Line.

On July 12, 2013, Sydnor announced that he would run for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014, seeking to succeed state Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, who ran for the Maryland Senate and with whom he ran on a slate. He won the Democratic primary with 23.4 percent of the vote on June 24, 2014, and later won the general election alongside Pat Young in November 2014. Sydnor was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 13, 2015. During his tenure, he served as a member of the Judiciary Committee and chaired its civil law & procedure and criminal justice subcommittees.

Sydnor was sworn into the Maryland State Senate on January 8, 2020, after serving as an elected delegate representing District 44B beginning in January 2015. He has served as a member of the Maryland Senate representing District 44 since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented District 44B in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2020. His current term ends on January 13, 2027.