13 Facts About Maggie McIntosh

Margaret L "Maggie" McIntosh was born on December 22,1947 and is an American politician from the state of Maryland.

Maggie McIntosh was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1993 to 2023.

Maggie McIntosh is a former Baltimore City Public School teacher who now chairs one of the six standing committees of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Maggie McIntosh received her Bachelor's Degree in arts education from Wichita State University in 1970 and her Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987.

Maggie McIntosh was elected as a delegate to both the 1980 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions, the latter as a delegate pledged to Hillary Clinton.

Maggie McIntosh was appointed to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates in November 1992, when Delegate Anne Perkins accepted a teaching position in China.

Maggie McIntosh chaired the Subcommittee on Personnel and was a member of the Education and Economic Development and Capitol Subcommittees.

In 1998, Maggie McIntosh assumed the position of Vice Chairman of the Commerce and Government Matters Committee.

In January 2003, Maggie McIntosh was named chairman of the House Environmental Matters Committee, which handles legislation regarding not just the environment, natural resources, and agriculture, but transportation, housing, and local government.

In January 2015, Maggie McIntosh was appointed to chair the House Appropriations Committee, the first woman in the history of Maryland to do so, overseeing the state operating and capital budgets, supplementary appropriations bills, state and county bond authorizations, higher education institutions, state and local agency procedures and programs, collective bargaining, social services, and state personnel and pension matters.

In November 2021, Maggie McIntosh announced that she would retire from the House of Delegates at the end of her term in 2022.

Delegate Maggie McIntosh is the first woman to chair the powerful Appropriations Committee in Maryland's House of Delegates, after being the first woman to be appointed majority leader in the House of Delegates and the first openly gay elected member of the Maryland General Assembly in March 2003.

Maggie McIntosh is the first woman to serve as the chairman of the Environmental Matters Committee where she has steered several major legislative initiatives to passage.