Sara Love

Sara Love is the Maryland State Senator for District 16 (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac). She serves on the Judicial Proceedings Committee and has been appointed by the Senate President to serve on the Chesapeake Bay Commission, which she Chairs, the Joint Committee on the Chesapeake & Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, and the Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities.

Sara was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018. She served on the Environment & Transportation Committee, and two of its subcommittees, Motor Vehicles & Transportation, which she chaired, and Environment. She chaired the Montgomery County House Delegation Land Use, Transportation and Public Safety Committee, and was appointed by the Speaker of the House to serve on the Chesapeake Bay Commission, the Joint Committee on the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, and the Zero-Emission and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council. Sara’s legislative work focused on the environment, PFAS, and privacy, in addition to legislation protecting minors from sexual predators, cyclists, and animals.

Prior to her election to the Maryland House, Sara was the Public Policy Director for the ACLU of Maryland, where she led their policy and legislative work. During that time, she worked on many issues including reproductive rights, racial justice, public funding for public schools, policing reform, criminal justice reform, saner drug policies, technology and privacy, the First Amendment, open government, and voting rights.

Before working for the ACLU, Sara served as the General Counsel and Legal Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America where she worked on federal reproductive rights policy and led a staff to support affiliates across the country working on state policy. She also spent several years out of the workforce, raising her two children.

Sara graduated from Princeton University and Northwestern University School of Law.