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Once a rarity, Latino candidates are now up and down the ballot in local, state races

States Newsroom · October 23, 2026

When she entered public life in 1990, Ana Sol Gutierrez was a pioneer, serving two terms on the Montgomery County Board of Education before becoming Maryland’s first Latina state legislator when she was elected to the House of Delegates in 2002. A native of El Salvador, she came to the U.S. in 1949, the daughter of a…

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Once a rarity, Latino candidates are now up and down the ballot in local, state races

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