Anita Bonds (born 1945[3]) is an American Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. She is an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia.

[7] Bonds was raised in Southeast Washington, D.C.[8] She attended college at University of California, Berkeley,[8] where she majored in chemistry.

[17] In 1994, Bonds became special assistant to District Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's chief of staff, Karen A.

[22] When elected to the D.C. Council, Bonds worked as an executive for Fort Myer Construction, one of the district's largest contractors.

[7] Bonds said she would cut back on her hours when taking her seat on the council but did not immediately sever ties with the company.

Douglass Sloan, a public affairs consultant and Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for Riggs Park, and John Capozzi, former Shadow U.S. Representative and former at-large member of the District of Columbia Democratic State Committee, announced that they would also seek the selection.

[32] She claimed the outing was accidental, but some D.C. government employees suggested on background that they believed it was an intentional act of retaliation.

[32] In July 2020, Bonds opposed legislation that would have moved funds from the extension of the D.C. Streetcar to repair public housing.

[33] In October 2020, Bonds complained after activists from the advocacy group Sunrise Movement demonstrated in front of her home, protesting that she was not more supportive of affordable housing and her endorsement of a developer for a vacant at-large position on the DC Council.