Elizabeth Embry

Elizabeth M. Embry (born March 2, 1977) is an American politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 43A in Baltimore.

[1] In 2018, she was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, running on the ticket of Prince George's County executive Rushern Baker.

[2] In February 2019, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh rehired Embry to lead a probe of sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.

[7] In September 2018, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori confirmed the archdiocese was under investigation by the state and that it had given the attorney general more than 50,000 pages of internal documents dating back to 1965.

[3] Her platform included increasing funding for schools and extracurricular activities,[13] criminal justice reform,[14] and improving city transportation.

[16] In January 2018, rumors arose that Embry was on Prince George's County executive Rushern Baker's shortlist for potential running mates.

[19] Baker and Embry were defeated by former NAACP president Ben Jealous in the Democratic primary election, placing second with 29.3 percent of the vote.

[27] During her mayoral campaign, Embry released a plan to reform the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, abolish cash bail, improve education services in the juvenile justice system, and providing automatic criminal record expungement where possible.

Embry (center) campaigning with Rushern Baker (left) in 2018