Alice J. Cain (born August 30, 1967) is a
Democratic politician and education policy expert who was a member of 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, ...
representing District 30A in
Anne Arundel County from January 2019 to March 2020.
Education
Cain attended
Gettysburg College, graduating cum laude in 1989 with B.A. in political science & government.
Career
Cain is currently the Executive Director for The Moriah Fund, a private foundation dedicated to promoting human rights and social justice.
Cain was a legislative aide to Sen.
Paul Simon
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of Illinois, 1990–1995,
after volunteering for his Presidential Campaign in 1988. She worked at the National Institute for Literacy, an arm of the
United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department ...
, 1995–1999, and for the
Children's Defense Fund, 2002–2004. Cain worked as the senior education policy advisor to Rep.
George Miller of California, 2004–2009,
including during his service as the chairman of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, where she was his lead staffer for both the Race to the Top and the Investing in Innovation (I3) education laws.
In the House of Delegates, Cain was a member of the Ways and Means Committee (education subcommittee, election law subcommittee); the Maryland Legislative Transit Caucus; the Women Legislators of Maryland Caucus;
the Veterans Caucus, and an associate member of the Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus.
She was the House sponsor of the Maryland Green Schools Act of 2018, which was signed into law by Governor Larry Hogan.
Elected in November 2018 after a primary that included eight candidates, Cain announced her resignation on March 19, 2020 (effective midnight March 18), citing "unforeseen family circumstances" that had changed "well before
COVID-19
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". Cain said she made her announcement immediately after the legislature's early adjournment so that her replacement could be appointed and assume office in time for a special General Assembly session that was anticipated in late May;
legislative leaders later decided not to call the special session.
Election results
*2018 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 30A
Voters to choose two:
References
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1968 births
21st-century American legislators
21st-century American women politicians
Gettysburg College alumni
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates
Women state legislators in Maryland
21st-century Maryland politicians
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