Jared’s Record of Success

Jared Solomon is a former public high school teacher, policy leader, and activist who has served two terms in the Maryland House of Delegates. He is one of three Delegates representing District 18 in the Maryland General Assembly.

Jared serves as the Chair of the Personnel Subcommittee of the House Government Operations, Labor, and Elections Committee, he serves as House Chair of the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee and the Co-Chair of the Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus. 

Over the last eight years, Jared has been an effective advocate and a critical voice for Maryland, authoring nearly 60 bills that became law, including significant legislation to protect our kids online, support people with disabilities, and keep our public employees safe. This past session, Jared was tasked by the Speaker of the House with strengthening accountability across state government. 

Under his leadership, Jared successfully passed a five-bill package to enhance transparency, accountability, and compliance in state operations. These bills include establishing a dedicated compliance unit to help ensure state agencies promptly address significant audit findings; improving coordination and administrative oversight over state health occupation licensing boards by the Maryland Department of Health; expanding oversight of state real estate transactions to ensure they serve the public interest; streamlining and improving the state’s criminal background check system for licensed health professionals; and strengthening the qualifications for chief financial officers across state agencies. Together, this package will help save money, make state government work better and more efficiently, and keep vulnerable Marylanders out of harm’s way. 

In addition to his work on government oversight, Jared has championed a broad legislative agenda including expanding affordable housing, increasing investments for world class public schools, reducing lead levels in school drinking water, ensuring that every family has access to affordable, quality childcare in their community, and growing Maryland’s clinical research and biotech sector. He’s also worked closely with unions to strengthen collective bargaining and protect public employees, and fought to make higher education more affordable for Maryland students by reducing barriers to financial aid, streamlining transfers from two-year to four-year colleges, improving the AP/IB exam approval process, and providing scholarships to more than 200 students.

For commuters, he authored and passed legislation to expand MARC rail service to Virginia and Delaware and continues to fight for public transit funding statewide. He has also been a vocal opponent of efforts to widen I-495 and create new toll lanes on I-270. Jared has also focused on pedestrian safety, working to improve our infrastructure across the community including new traffic signals, sidewalks, and speed cameras. He has also passed bills to make it safer to walk to school and to allow more automated enforcement to slow drivers down.

In his second term alone, Jared worked with his district colleagues to secure nearly $145 million for District 18 priorities, including new and renovated schools, libraries, parks, transportation infrastructure, critically important community organizations, and the Institute for Health Computing. 

Jared began his career in education as a high school social studies teacher in Baltimore City and later worked in the Chancellor’s Office at D.C. Public Schools, where he saw firsthand how policy decisions affect students every day. That experience led him to focus on improving federal public policy, serving as a Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and working at First Focus, a bipartisan national children’s advocacy organization.

Jared remains active in local nonprofit organizations, serving on the board of the Jubilee Association of Maryland. In 2024, Jared was appointed by the Biden Administration to serve on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card.”

Jared graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and received his Master of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University.

Jared, his wife Emily, and their two sons, Leo and Charlie, are proud residents of Rock Creek Hills. As he seeks a third term representing our neighborhoods, Jared remains committed to expanding educational opportunity, strengthening Maryland’s economy, investing in public transportation, protecting the environment, and delivering results for the communities he serves.