Cathi Forbes (born June 15, 1965) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represents District 43B in the Maryland House of Delegates.

She graduated from Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio and attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where she earned a B.A.

[5] In 1990, Forbes and Patterson moved to Baltimore, where she worked for Barton Cotton, a company that makes greeting cards.

[15] In January 2022, Forbes introduced legislation, HB1165, to require new state-funded construction or renovation projects—including new schools—to be high-performance “green” buildings.

[16] After hearing about racist and anti-Semitic language that continues to exist on older property deeds, in the form of covenants, Forbes introduced HB1077 in 2020.

[17] In September 2020, Forbes resisted a planned 57-unit affordable housing complex, due to the possible loss of a historic Black neighborhood that was currently there.