Emily Shetty
Member of theMaryland House of Delegates from the18th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 9, 2019 Serving with Aaron Kaufman,Jared Solomon
Preceded by	Ana Sol Gutierrez
Personal details
Born	(1984-01-11)January 11, 1984 (age 41) Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Ash Shetty
Children	1
Alma mater	Duke University (BA) Catholic University of America (JD)

Emily Khoury Shetty (born January 11, 1984) is an American politician and attorney who has served as a member of theMaryland House of Delegates representingDistrict 18 since 2019.

Shetty was born inFairfax, Virginia,^[1] on January 11, 1984.^[2] Her mother immigrated to the United States fromBulgaria^[3] and raised Shetty and her sister as asingle mother.^[4] She was raised inHigh Point, North Carolina, where she worked at her local library when she was nine years old and later volunteered withBig Brothers Big Sisters of America.^[3] Shetty earned herBachelor of Arts degree fromDuke University in 2005, attended theColumbus School of Law, and earned her J.D. degree from theCatholic University of America in 2008. She was admitted to theMaryland Bar in 2009.^[1]

After graduating from Catholic University, Shetty worked for U.S. RepresentativeEdolphus Towns until 2012, first as a legislative assistant and then as his legislative director. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as the senior director of legislative affairs with theLeukemia & Lymphoma Society, afterwards working as a consultant for lobbyist groups Stanton Park Group and Horizon Government Affairs. In 2020, she started her own lobbying firm, Step Up Advocacy.^[1][5]

From 2013 to 2014, and again from 2015 to 2018, Shetty was a member of the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee.^[1] In 2014, she unsuccessfully ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 18,^[3] receiving 11 percent of the vote behind incumbentsAna Sol Gutierrez,Jeff Waldstreicher, andAl Carr.^[6] Shetty ran again in 2018 after Waldstreicher announced he would run for theMaryland Senate,^[7] winning the Democratic primary with 19.7 percent of the vote^[8] and defeating Republican challenger Linda Willard in the general election with 30 percent of the vote.^[9]

Shetty was sworn into the House of Delegates on January 9, 2019. She was a member of the Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2022, afterwards serving in the Appropriations Committee. Since 2023, Shetty has served as the chair of the House Democratic Caucus.^[1]

During the2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Shetty ran as a delegate to theDemocratic National Convention, not pledged to any candidate.^[10]

During her 2014 House of Delegates campaign, Shetty said she supported increasing state investments inmental health care.^[3]

During the 2021 legislative session, Shetty introduced legislation that would allow pharmacists to switch name brands. The bill passed and became law.^[11]

In 2022, Shetty introduced a bill that would allow organ donors to decide whether their organs would be donated to research or a surgical transplant. The bill unanimously passed the Maryland General Assembly and became law.^[12]

Shetty supports indexing the state minimum wage to inflation.^[13]

During the 2019 legislative session, Shetty introduced the Law Enforcement Trust and Transparency Act, which would establish statewide standards for officer-involved death investigations.^[14][15]

In 2021, Shetty introduced a bill to limit how police could usegenealogy websites and their databases. The bill passed and became law without GovernorLarry Hogan's signature.^[16]

During the 2021 legislative session, Shetty introduced legislation that would allowtransgender people to change their names without having to advertise it in a newspaper. The bill passed and became law.^[17]

In 2022, Shetty supported legislation to raise the state's minimum marriage age to 17 years old.^[18] She also supported the Abortion Care Access Act, which provided $3.5 million toward clinical reproductive services training for health care professionals.^[19]

Shetty supports thePurple Line.^[3]

Shetty is married to her husband, Ash Shetty.^[20] Together, they live inKensington, Maryland,^[21] and have one child.^[1] She has a chronic autoimmune disorder.^[22]

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• 21st-century American women politicians
• American people of Bulgarian descent
• Columbus School of Law alumni
• Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni
• Maryland lawyers
• Politicians from Fairfax, Virginia
• Women state legislators in Maryland
• United States congressional aides
• 21st-century members of the Maryland General Assembly

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