Jennifer White Holland (born April 21, 1988) is an American politician who is 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, ...

for

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Career

Jennifer White was born on April 21, 1988, in

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, Michigan. She attended

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in Novi. She graduated from

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

with a

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degree with honors in political theory and constitutional democracy, and social relations and policy in 2010. She later attended the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. As the second independent, degree-granting institution for research in epi ...

, where she earned a

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degree in public health in 2012. White Holland is a non-profit executive and health equity partnerships manager. In 2017, White Holland graduated from a training course hosted by Emerge Maryland, an organization created to prepare potential female Democratic candidates for public office. In 2022, she ran for the

, running on a slate with

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Adrienne A. Jones, then-state delegate Benjamin Brooks, and management consultant N. Scott Phillips. She won the Democratic primary on July 19, receiving 19.2 percent of the vote.

In the legislature

White Holland was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 11, 2023. She is a member of the House Health and Government Operations Committee.

Electoral history

References

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