Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, a Baltimore County Democrat, swore in Delegate Brenda Thiam, a Republican from Washington County, on Tuesday as Maryland’s first Black female Republican legislator.
House Minority Leader Nic Kipke, a Republican from Anne Arundel County, said Thiam’s possible committees include Ways and Means and Appropriations due to her background in education and budget interests.
“Another history maker,” Jones said of Thiam, pronounced “cham,” during the livestreamed ceremony, which featured a masked speaker, Thiam, and her husband, Malick, and sister, Jackie Hutton, as well as other unseen legislators scattered off-camera throughout the nearly empty chamber.
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