Dalya Attar

Dalya Attar (born October 17, 1990) is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland Senate representing the 41st district since 2025.

[4] While attending the University of Baltimore, Attar worked as a paralegal for Greenspan, Hitzel & Schrader until 2015, when she became a trial attorney for the firm.

[7] During the Democratic primary, she ran on a platform of spurring development, improving schools, and reforming the juvenile justice system.

[11] She was appointed to the seat by Governor Wes Moore and sworn in on January 24, 2025,[5] and is the youngest member of the Maryland Senate as of 2025.

[15] In January 2025, Attar proposed expanding access to "Grade A schools" to address juvenile crime in Maryland.

[6] During the 2024 legislative session, after Zainab Chaudry, the director of the state Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) chapter, was temporarily suspended from the state Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention for making Facebook posts comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and calling attendees of the March for Israel "genocide sympathizers", Attar introduced legislation to remove Chaudry from the commission and replace her with "two members of the Muslim community".

[20] During the 2020 legislative session, Attar introduced a bill that would prevent husbands from having a civil divorce unless they granted their wife a gett.

[16] During the 2022 legislative session, Attar supported a bill that would require the Maryland Department of Transportation to seek federal approval for the Red Line.