Representative Elizabeth Embry Contact information

Elizabeth M. Embry, born on March 2, 1977, is an American politician and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 43A in Baltimore. She assumed office on January 11, 2023.

Embry was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Baltimore City College High School, Yale University, and Columbia Law School. She was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2004.

In her early career, Embry served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Baltimore City from 2004 to 2008. She then served as an Assistant Solicitor in the Law Department of Baltimore City from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, she served as the Interim Director for the Mayor’s Office for Criminal Justice in Baltimore City. From 2011 to 2015, she served as the Deputy State’s Attorney in Baltimore City.

In 2015, she became the Chief of the Criminal Division in the Office of the Attorney General. She took a leave from this job during her 2016 mayoral campaign and resigned from it in February 2018 to focus on her gubernatorial campaign. In February 2019, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh rehired Embry to lead a probe of sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Embry has also been involved in several political campaigns. In 2016, she was a candidate for mayor of Baltimore. In 2018, she was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, running on the ticket of Prince George’s County executive Rushern Baker.

In addition to her political career, Embry has been an adjunct professor at the School of Law at the University of Baltimore and the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. She has also served on the Board of Directors for several organizations, including the Maryland Art Place, Better Waverly Community Organization, Bikemore, and Public Justice Center.