Natalie Carroll Ziegler
(born September 5, 1955) is an American politician and farmer. She is a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates for District 9A in
Howard
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...
and
Montgomery counties.
Background
Born in 1955 to mother Mary Carter Carroll and father John C. Ziegler,
Ziegler was raised in
New York City and
Boston.
She graduated from
Abbot Academy
Abbot Academy (also known as Abbot Female Seminary and AA) was an University-preparatory school, independent boarding preparatory school for women boarding and day students in grades 9–12 from 1828 to 1973. Located in Andover, Massachusetts, Abb ...
in 1972 and
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
in 1977, receiving a
bachelor's degree with high honors in psychology, and later attended the
, where she earned a master's degree in economics and American foreign policy in 1986.
She worked as a journalist and a guest booker for
CNN,
and founded a jewelry manufacturing company with her husband in 2001.
Ziegler is a fifth-generation
descendant of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a former
U.S. Senator from Maryland
This is a list of United States senators from Maryland, which ratified the United States Constitution April 28, 1788, becoming the seventh state to do so. To provide for continuity of government, the framers divided senators into staggered clas ...
and a signer of the
Declaration of Independence. She owns Carroll Mill Farm, a feed grain operation in
Ellicott City, Maryland
Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Howard County, Maryland, United States. Part of the Baltimore metropolitan area, its population was 65,834 at the 2010 census, making it the mo ...
.
In 2018, Ziegler ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 9A, challenging incumbent Republican state delegates
Trent Kittleman
Trent M. Kittleman (; born May 7, 1945) is an American politician. She was a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2023. She was the wife of State Senator Robert H. Kittleman until his death in 2004, and unsuccessfull ...
and
Warren E. Miller
Warren E. Miller (born October 5, 1964) was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Miller represented District 9A, which includes parts of Howard and Carroll counties. Miller was appointed by Governor Bob Ehrlich on March 7, 2003 to rep ...
. She won the Democratic primary on June 26, 2018, but was defeated by Kittleman and Miller in the general election on November 6. Shortly after her loss, county executive-elect
Calvin Ball III
Calvin B. Ball III (born September 2, 1975) is an American politician who serves as the county executive of Howard County, Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he is the first African-American to hold this ...
named Ziegler to serve on the county's public works subcommittee transition team.
In January 2020, Ziegler was appointed to the
Howard Community College Board of Trustees. She was reappointed to the board in October 2021.
In November 2021, Ziegler filed to run for state delegate in District 9A, seeking to succeed outgoing state delegate
Reid Novotny, who ran unsuccessfully for
Maryland Senate. She won a tight general election on November 8, 2022, coming in first.
In the legislature
Ziegler was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 11, 2023. She is a member of the House Environment and Transportation Committee.
Personal life
Ziegler lives in Ellicott City with her husband, John Zirschky. Together, they have two children.
Political positions
In September 2016, Ziegler supported and testified for a proposal to expand solar development on Howard County farmland.
During the 2023 legislative session, Ziegler pushed back against a bill that would ban foreign governments from buying farmland in Maryland, worrying that the bill would "demonize people unfairly".
Electoral history
References
External links
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1955 births
21st-century American legislators
21st-century American women politicians
Abbot Academy alumni
CNN people
Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates
Farmers from Maryland
Living people
Oberlin College alumni
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
Women state legislators in Maryland
People from Ellicott City, Maryland
Carroll family
Businesspeople from Maryland
21st-century Maryland politicians