Notable Lesbians
This week’s Notable Lesbian is:
Maggie L. McIntosh
December 22, 1947 -
Maggie L. McIntosh is an American politician from the state of Maryland. 
She is a former Baltimore City Public School teacher who now chairs one of the six standing committees of the Maryland House of Delegates. A Democrat, she represents the state’s 43rd district in Baltimore City. McIntosh chaired the Subcommittee on Personnel and was a member of the Education and Economic Development and Capitol Subcommittees. In 1998, she assumed the position of Vice Chairman of the Commerce and Government Matters Committee and in 2001, she was named House Majority Leader. In January 2003, McIntosh was named chairman of the House Environmental Matters Committee.
Interesting tid bit:
Delegate McIntosh is a woman of many firsts. She was the first woman to be appointed majority leader in the Maryland House of Delegates and the first openly gay person in the Maryland General Assembly. She is also the first woman to serve as the chairman of the Environmental Matters Committee where she has steered several major legislative initiatives to passage. The Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act, which funded upgrades at wastewater treatment plants around the state, is among McIntosh’s accomplishments, as well as an annexation measure passed in 2006 in which she brought counties and municipalities together. One of McIntosh’s chief initiatives in 2007 is the Chesapeake Bay Green Fund, which would levy a surcharge on new development to pay for Bay restoration.
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