Representative Jared Solomon Contact information

Jared Solomon is an American politician from the Democratic Party and is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 18. He was born on April 3, 1985, and raised in suburban Philadelphia. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, history, and economics, and Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Master of Arts in teaching. Solomon also attended one semester at the London School of Economics.

After graduating, he taught social studies at Northwestern High School until 2009, after which he worked as a project coordinator for the District of Columbia Public Schools. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a senior policy director for First Focus, afterwards working as a policy advisor to U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. until 2018, when he resigned to run for the Maryland House of Delegates. In this capacity, Solomon worked on immigration, LGBT, and education policy and was the lead staff negotiator on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Solomon was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018, and sworn in on January 9, 2019. He has been a member of the Appropriations Committee during his entire tenure. He is also a member of the Maryland Transit Caucus and an associate member of the Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus and Women Legislators of Maryland. During the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Solomon ran for delegate to the Democratic National Convention pledged to Pete Buttigieg. In the presidential general election, he canvassed for Democratic nominee Joe Biden in North Wales, Pennsylvania. In January 2024, Solomon, along with state senator Shelly Hettleman and 20 other Jewish lawmakers, created the Maryland Jewish Legislative Caucus.

Solomon is married and has two children. He is Jewish. During the 2019 legislative session, Solomon introduced a bill providing $30 million to schools for water remediation efforts to reduce lead levels in drinking water to 5 million parts per million, which passed and became law. In 2021, he introduced legislation to encourage school systems to adopt renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and another requiring schools with lead levels higher than 5 million parts per million to make remedial repairs by summer 2022.