Baltimore Del. Brooke Lierman made history Tuesday night, becoming the first woman elected as state comptroller and to an independent state government office in Maryland.
“It’s been 20 years since the one and only time Democrats nominated a woman for one of our three statewide offices and I’d like to give a shout out to that woman, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — as well as all the women who’ve run and whose shoulders I stand on: from Eleanor Carey to Valerie Ervin to Heather Mizeur and Kelly Schulz,” Lierman said to a packed hotel ballroom in Baltimore. “We represent more than 51% of the population here in this state and tonight I’m humbled that for the first time in our state’s 200-plus year history, we have finally elected a woman to one of our top three offices.”
She noted that it had been 36 years since Barbara Mikulski “smashed a glass ceiling” in the state and in the country, becoming the first woman U.S. senator who was not elected as a replacement for their spouse.
“To every girl and woman out there: let’s keep shattering glass,” Lierman told the assembled crowd. “I may be the first, but I will do my best to ensure I’m not the last.”
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