Aisha Nazapa Braveboy (born July 29, 1974) is an

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and attorney, who represented district 25 in the

Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...

from 2007 to 2015. In 2018, she was elected as Prince George's County State's Attorney.

Background

Aisha is the daughter of Cuthbert and Norma Braveboy. Born in

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, State's Attorney Braveboy attended Melwood Elementary school, Kettering Middle school and graduated from Largo High School in 1992. She went on to the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

, and earned her

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in government & politics in 1997. Three years later she graduated from the

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with a J.D. and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2000. She is currently a member of the

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In the legislature

In 2006, Braveboy was elected to represent the 25th Legislative District in the

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, succeeding Delegate Anthony Brown, who vacated his seat to run for lieutenant governor. She served on the House Economic Matters Committee, and chaired the Consumer Protection subcommittee. She was the Chair of the

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and a member of the Maryland's Women's Caucus. She is a member of

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sorority. She served as the National Chair of Legislative Action.

States attorney

Receiving 98.7 percent of the vote, Braveboy was elected in November 2018 to succeed

Angela Alsobrooks Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (born February 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland, in 2018 after serving two terms as state's attorney fo ...

as Prince George's County state's attorney. She won the race on a progressive platform, including saying she wanted to create more diversion programs for low-level offenders.

References

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