Anne Kaiser
Encyclopedia
Anne R. Kaiser is an American politician from the state of Maryland
and is a lifelong resident of Montgomery County, Maryland
. She is currently serving her third term as one of three members of the House of Delegates
from Maryland's 14th District, which includes parts of Silver Spring
, Calverton
, Colesville
, Cloverly
, Fairland
, Burtonsville
, Spencerville, Olney
, Brookeville
, Ashton, Sandy Spring
, Brinklow, Laytonsville
, Sunshine, Goshen, parts of Montgomery Village and Damascus
in Montgomery County.
, Maryland. She graduated from Rockville High School
and then attended the University of Chicago
, graduating with a B.A. in Political Science
in 1990. She received two Masters Degrees from the University of Michigan
in 1995, a Masters in Public Policy and a Masters in Educational Studies.
(D-Iowa) as well as for Maryland Delegate Hank Heller. During that time, Kaiser became active in Montgomery County Democratic politics, was a member of the Giant Food
Consumer Advisory Board, and coached youth basketball.
After completing graduate school, Kaiser worked as an Economist at the IRS
from December 1995 until April 2002. During that time she was a member of the Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee, the Rockville Branch of the American Association of University Women
(serving as Membership VP and Secretary), and continued coaching youth basketball. She served in leadership positions as Chair of the Mid-County Citizens' Advisory Board and Co-Coordinator of the Montgomery County Women's Fair. In 1998, she was elected to a 4-year term on the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee.
She currently works part-time at Bethesda Transportation Solutions, part of the Bethesda Urban Partnership. She is a lifetime member of Tikvat Israel (formerly Beth Tikva) Congregation in Rockville.
in 2002, and was reelected in 2006 and 2010. She is a member of the Ways and Means Committee, serving as the chair of the Education Subcommittee. She was appointed by Speaker Michael Busch
to serve as one of two Chief Deputy Majority Whips
. She is also a member of the Joint Committee on Federal Relations; a member of the Joint Committee on Welfare Reform and a member of the Joint Advisory Committee on Legislative Data Systems. During eight years in the legislature, Kaiser has been the prime sponsor of at least 32 bills that are now law.
During the 2004 legislative session, Kaiser testified on behalf of H.B. 1284: Medical Decision-Making Act and in her testimony announced that she is a lesbian
. In making this announcement, she joined openly gay Maryland legislators Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh and then-Delegate (now Senator) Rich Madaleno. The LGBT
caucus in the Maryland General Assembly
increased to four in 2006 with the election of Del. Heather Mizeur
and to seven in 2010 when Dels. Luke Clippinger
, Mary L. Washington
and Bonnie Cullison
were all elected. In 2011, Del. Peter Murphy
came out, taking the LGBT caucus to eight.
While a member of the House of Delegates, Kaiser maintains her activism in community organizations. She currently serves as the House of Delegates liaison for Committee for Montgomery. Kaiser was also selected by Speaker Michael Busch to be in the inaugural class of the Howard P. Rawlings Leadership Fellowship Program. Previously, she was active with the Girls in Information Technology Taskforce, the Carl M. Freeman Foundation and is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery. In 2004, she was elected as a Kerry
delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
and is a lifelong resident of Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, situated just to the north of Washington, D.C., and southwest of the city of Baltimore. It is one of the most affluent counties in the United States, and has the highest percentage of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate...
. She is currently serving her third term as one of three members of the House of Delegates
Maryland House of Delegates
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
from Maryland's 14th District, which includes parts of Silver Spring
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
, Calverton
Calverton, Maryland
Calverton is an unincorporated area and Census-designated place located on the boundary between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Calverton's boundaries are not officially defined...
, Colesville
Colesville, Maryland
Colesville is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland in the USA.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Colesville's boundaries are not officially defined. Also, many residents consider the town to be one of the many neighborhoods of Silver Spring, Maryland...
, Cloverly
Cloverly, Maryland
Cloverly is a census-designated place and an unincorporated town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Cloverly's boundaries are not officially defined. Many residents consider themselves to live in a neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, the...
, Fairland
Fairland, Maryland
Fairland is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Fairland's boundaries are not officially defined...
, Burtonsville
Burtonsville, Maryland
Burtonsville is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-History:In colonial times, the area was referred to as the Patuxent Hundred and later the Eastern Branch Hundred, a community comprising about 100 inhabitants...
, Spencerville, Olney
Olney, Maryland
Olney, a census-designated place and an unincorporated area of Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, is located in the north central part of the county, twenty miles north of Washington, D.C. It was largely agricultural until the 1960s, when growth of the Washington suburbs led to its conversion into...
, Brookeville
Brookeville, Maryland
Brookeville is a town located twenty miles north of Washington, D.C. and two miles north of Olney in northeastern Montgomery County, Maryland. Brookeville was settled by Quakers late in the 18th century, and was formally incorporated as a town in 1808...
, Ashton, Sandy Spring
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Ashton-Sandy Spring is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The CDP is designated to include the two unincorporated communities of Ashton and Sandy Spring.-Geography:...
, Brinklow, Laytonsville
Laytonsville, Maryland
Laytonsville is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The population was 277 at the 2000 census. Laytonsville was originally known as Cracklintown. This name originated from the popular cracklin bread, which was baked in the locale. This recipe, essentially a bacon corn bread, also...
, Sunshine, Goshen, parts of Montgomery Village and Damascus
Damascus, Maryland
Damascus is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.In the early part of the 20th century, there was an incorporated municipality there for about a quarter century, but it no longer exists...
in Montgomery County.
Background
Kaiser was born in Washington, DC on February 10, 1968 and grew up in RockvilleRockville, Maryland
Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a major incorporated city in the central part of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The 2010 U.S...
, Maryland. She graduated from Rockville High School
Rockville High School (Maryland)
Rockville High School is a comprehensive, four-year high school in Rockville, Maryland, United States. The school was founded in 1968 and its current building was completed in August, 2004. As of 2009, enrollment was 1,243 students. Earle B...
and then attended the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, graduating with a B.A. in Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
in 1990. She received two Masters Degrees from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in 1995, a Masters in Public Policy and a Masters in Educational Studies.
Career and community involvement
Between college and graduate school, Kaiser worked for Congressman Neal SmithNeal Smith (politician)
Neal Edward Smith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa from 1959 until 1995 — the longest-serving Iowan in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in his grandparents' home near Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa. He served in the United States Army Air...
(D-Iowa) as well as for Maryland Delegate Hank Heller. During that time, Kaiser became active in Montgomery County Democratic politics, was a member of the Giant Food
Giant Food of Landover, Maryland
Giant Food LLC is a supermarket chain with 202 stores in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.. It is headquartered in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, near Landover. Giant often is known as Giant-Landover to avoid confusion with sibling company Giant-Carlisle...
Consumer Advisory Board, and coached youth basketball.
After completing graduate school, Kaiser worked as an Economist at the IRS
Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
from December 1995 until April 2002. During that time she was a member of the Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee, the Rockville Branch of the American Association of University Women
American Association of University Women
The American Association of University Women advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. It was founded in 1882 by Ellen Swallow Richards and Marion Talbot...
(serving as Membership VP and Secretary), and continued coaching youth basketball. She served in leadership positions as Chair of the Mid-County Citizens' Advisory Board and Co-Coordinator of the Montgomery County Women's Fair. In 1998, she was elected to a 4-year term on the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee.
She currently works part-time at Bethesda Transportation Solutions, part of the Bethesda Urban Partnership. She is a lifetime member of Tikvat Israel (formerly Beth Tikva) Congregation in Rockville.
House of Delegates
Kaiser was first elected to the Maryland House of DelegatesMaryland House of Delegates
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
in 2002, and was reelected in 2006 and 2010. She is a member of the Ways and Means Committee, serving as the chair of the Education Subcommittee. She was appointed by Speaker Michael Busch
Michael E. Busch
Michael E. Busch is the current Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates in the United States. Busch has been a member of the House since 1987, and Speaker since January 2003...
to serve as one of two Chief Deputy Majority Whips
Whip (politics)
A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...
. She is also a member of the Joint Committee on Federal Relations; a member of the Joint Committee on Welfare Reform and a member of the Joint Advisory Committee on Legislative Data Systems. During eight years in the legislature, Kaiser has been the prime sponsor of at least 32 bills that are now law.
During the 2004 legislative session, Kaiser testified on behalf of H.B. 1284: Medical Decision-Making Act and in her testimony announced that she is a lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
. In making this announcement, she joined openly gay Maryland legislators Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh and then-Delegate (now Senator) Rich Madaleno. The LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
caucus in the Maryland General Assembly
Maryland General Assembly
The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is a bicameral body. The upper chamber, the Maryland State Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber, the Maryland House of Delegates, has 141 representatives...
increased to four in 2006 with the election of Del. Heather Mizeur
Heather Mizeur
Heather R. Mizeur is an American politician from Maryland. A Democrat, she is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing the state's 20th district in Montgomery County.-Background:...
and to seven in 2010 when Dels. Luke Clippinger
Luke Clippinger
Luke Clippinger is an American politician and lawyer from Maryland. A Democrat, he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010, representing the state's 46th district in Baltimore...
, Mary L. Washington
Mary L. Washington
Mary L. Washington is an American politician from Baltimore, Maryland. A Democrat, she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010, representing the state's 43rd district. She took office on January 12, 2011.-Early life and career:...
and Bonnie Cullison
Bonnie Cullison
Bonnie Cullison is an American teacher, labor official and politician from Montgomery County, Maryland. A Democrat, she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010, representing the state's 19th district. She took office on January 12, 2011.-Early life and career:Raised in St...
were all elected. In 2011, Del. Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy (politician)
Peter Murphy is an American politician who represents district 28 in the Maryland House of Delegates.-Background:Murphy was born in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 1949. He has both a B.A. and an M.A. from the American University, and an Ed.S...
came out, taking the LGBT caucus to eight.
While a member of the House of Delegates, Kaiser maintains her activism in community organizations. She currently serves as the House of Delegates liaison for Committee for Montgomery. Kaiser was also selected by Speaker Michael Busch to be in the inaugural class of the Howard P. Rawlings Leadership Fellowship Program. Previously, she was active with the Girls in Information Technology Taskforce, the Carl M. Freeman Foundation and is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery. In 2004, she was elected as a Kerry
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Awards
Kaiser has been recognized with several awards:- Out for Equality award from Equality MarylandEquality MarylandEquality Maryland is a non-profit organization formerly headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, now based in Baltimore. Its activities focus on advocacy and education with regard to a number of LGBT social and political movements...
- nominated for the Young Woman of Achievement Award from the Women’s Information Network
- two certificates of appreciation from the Maryland Municipal League
- one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2006 by The Daily Record
- Legislator of the Year (2007), by the Maryland Nurses Association
- Advocacy in Action Award from the Maryland Association of Youth Services Bureaus (2008)
Election results
- 2010 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – 14th District
Name Votes Percent Outcome Anne Kaiser, Democratic 23,503 21.5% Won Craig Zucker Craig ZuckerCraig Zucker is an American politician from Maryland's 14th District, which includes parts or all of Silver Spring, Calverton, Colesville, Cloverly, Fairland, Burtonsville, Spencerville, Olney, Brookeville, Ashton, Sandy Spring, Brinklow, Laytonsville, Sunshine, Goshen, Montgomery Village and...
, Democratic22,148 20.2% Won Eric Luedtke Eric LuedtkeEric Luedtke is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected in 2010 to the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 14 in Montgomery County, which includes parts of Burtonsville, Silver Spring, Olney, Sandy Spring, Brookeville, and Damascus...
, Democratic21,165 19.3% Won Patricia Fenati, Republican 14,866 13.6 Lost Henry Kahwaty, Republican 14,152 12.9% Lost Maria Peña-Faustino, Republican 13,639 12.5% Lost
- 2006 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – 14th District
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- Voters to choose three:
Name Votes Percent Outcome Anne Kaiser, Democratic 24,500 21.8% Won Karen S. Montgomery Karen S. MontgomeryKaren Slater Montgomery is an American politician and artist from the state of Maryland. A Democrat, she is currently serving as the state senator for the Maryland State Senate from Maryland's 14th District, which includes parts of Silver Spring, Burtonsville, Olney, Barnesville, Brookeville,...
, Democratic24,478 21.8% Won Herman L. Taylor, Jr. Herman L. Taylor, Jr.Herman L. Taylor, Jr. is an American politician who served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2003-2011 in Maryland's 14th Legislative District...
, Democratic24,273 21.6% Won John McKinnis, Republican 13,471 12.0% Lost John Austin, Republican 12,963 11.5% Lost Jim Goldberg, Republican 12,603 11.2% Lost other write-ins 61 0.1% Lost
- Voters to choose three:
Legislative notes
- voted for the Healthy Air Act in 2006 (SB154)http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/votes/house/0942.htm
- voted against slots in 2005 (HB1361)http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/votes/house/0152.htm
- voted in favor of increasing the sales tax whilst simultaneously reducing income tax rates for some income brackets - Tax Reform Act of 2007(HB2)http://www.mdchamber.org/docs/ss_hb2.pdf
- voted in favor of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants in 2007