Lesley Jeanne Lopez (born November 28, 1983) is an American politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 39.

The oldest of three siblings,[1] Lopez was born in Paget Parish, Bermuda,[2] while her mother Patricia was serving on active duty in the U.S. Navy.

[5] After graduating, Lopez worked as a journalist for ABC News's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, BBC, CNN, America's Most Wanted, and the Eurovision Song Contest.

[6] She also worked as an adjunct professor of communications at George Washington University, where she became a member of Service Employees International Union Local 500.

[3] Lopez later worked as the communications director for various other organizations, including the National Immigration Forum, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, and the US-China Business Council, from 2014 to 2017.

[5] Lopez ran for re-election in 2022, during which she formed a slate with union activist Clint Sobratti, who sought to unseat incumbent delegate Gabriel Acevero.

Lopez defended her election, saying in an interview with Maryland Matters that she "had some plans of what I wanted to do [as caucus president] when I moved up so I accelerated the timeline" and had approached state senator Adelaide Eckardt, a Republican, about joining her leadership team, but she declined.

[15] During the Democratic primary, she received endorsements from several members of the legislature[16] and ran on a platform of gun safety, addressing the opioid crisis, and protecting reproductive rights.

[20][21] During the 2021 legislative session, Lopez endorsed a bill to expand collective bargaining rights to employees at Maryland's 16 community colleges.

[30] Following the bill's passage, Lopez was invited to the White House by President Joe Biden, where he announced a new United States Department of Justice rule regulating privately made firearms.

[35] In 2019, Lopez introduced a bill to expand the state's child pornography laws to include lascivious behavior and computer-generated images.

[36] In May 2022, following the leak of a draft majority opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Lopez sent a letter on the behalf of the Women's Legislative Caucus of Maryland to Governor Larry Hogan, asking that he release the $3.5 million in funds to train abortion care providers as part of the Abortion Care Access Act.