24 Facts About Tom Hucker

Tom Hucker was born on April 9,1967 and is an American elected official and a Democrat from the US state of Maryland.

Tom Hucker served from 2007 until 2014 as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 20, which included neighborhoods in Takoma Park and Silver Spring.

Tom Hucker previously served as a member of the Montgomery County Council, representing District 5 from 2014 to 2022.

Tom Hucker won a Gasson Scholarship to Boston College and graduated with honors in 1988, majoring in biology, English, and philosophy.

Tom Hucker was twice elected to the Senate of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, and was elected President of the Boston College MASSPIRG chapter and Treasurer of the statewide MASSPIRG Board of Directors.

Tom Hucker came to prominence in Maryland politics when he founded Progressive Maryland, an advocacy group, in 2001.

Tom Hucker was elected to his first term in the House of Delegates in 2006, after a four-month grassroots campaign.

Tom Hucker was endorsed by The Washington Post, which wrote that Hucker "has proven most effective at getting good bills enacted".

In January 2009, Tom Hucker was charged with driving under the influence.

Tom Hucker was elected to represent District 5 on the Montgomery County Council in November 2014 and re-elected in 2018.

Tom Hucker is the Chair of the Council's Transportation and Environment Committee and serves as a member of the Public Safety Committee.

Tom Hucker served on the House Economic Matters Committee, and on its Consumer, Workers Compensation, and Insurance Subcommittees.

Tom Hucker previously served on the Environmental Matters Committee, and on its Environment, Natural Resources, and Land Use and Ethics Subcommittees.

In 2009, Tom Hucker passed HB 184 to require the state to finalize a plan to offer universal pre-Kindergarten for all Maryland four-year-olds, and HB 1263 to reduce mercury pollution by requiring auto manufacturers to pay to recycle mercury capsules in older American cars.

In 2010, Tom Hucker built on HB 184 by passing HB 350 to require the Maryland State Department of Education to apply for federal Early Education Challenge Grant support to expand pre-kindergarten in Maryland.

Tom Hucker successfully sponsored HB 1322 to fight human trafficking by requiring all hotels and motels that have been the site of prostitution or human trafficking to post a sign in every hotel room with information on human trafficking and the phone number of the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

Tom Hucker has sponsored legislation to expand health care access, ban arsenic from chicken feed, provide mental health services for veterans, facilitate offshore wind turbines, and ban discrimination in housing.

Tom Hucker was described as a "Champion of Working Families" by Progressive Maryland and received the highest score in the Maryland General Assembly.

Tom Hucker was elected to serve on the Montgomery County Council in November 2014 to represent District 5 and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2018.

Tom Hucker serves as the Chair of the Council's Transportation and Environment Committee and serves as a member of the Public Safety Committee.

Tom Hucker represents the County Council on the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, and as a Commissioner on the Washington Suburban Transit Commission.

Tom Hucker voted to establish new after-school and full-day Head Start programs in Montgomery County Public Schools.

Tom Hucker has introduced and passed legislation aimed at increasing protections for tenants and families.

Tom Hucker has advocated for the expansion of public transit in Montgomery County, leading efforts to expand Ride-On Express on US-29 beginning May 2018, proposing and receiving funding for BRT on New Hampshire Avenue and the Burtonsville Access Road.