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- Susan Clair Lee (Chinese: 李鳳遷; pinyin: Lǐ Fèngqiān; born May 14, 1954) is a member of the Maryland State Senate. She was elected to the Maryland State Senate on November 4, 2014 and had previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates since 2002. She is the Senate Majority Whip, a member of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Safe Harbor Youth Victims of Human Trafficking Workgroup, Governor's Family Violence Council, and the Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology, co-chair of the Maryland Cybersecurity Council Law, Policy & Legislation Subcommittee and chair of the Maryland Legislative Asian American & Pacific Islander Caucus. Lee was the Senate lead sponsor of the Maryland Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Lee represents District 16, which is located in Montgomery County, and includes parts of Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, Kensington, Cabin John, Glen Echo, and Rockville. She is the first Asian American elected to the Maryland State Senate and was the first Asian American woman and first Chinese American to be elected to the Maryland legislature. While in the House of Delegates, she was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, a deputy majority whip, vice chair of the Montgomery County House Delegation, chair of the Subcommittee on Family Law, co-chair of the Maryland Commission on Cyber Security Innovation and Excellence, the Nanobiotechnology Task Force, and the Identity Theft Task Force. Lee was elected to serve two terms as president of the Women Legislators of Maryland (Women's Legislative Caucus) and led efforts to pass an aggressive agenda of laws to fight domestic violence and human trafficking, economically empower women, reduce health care disparities, and obtain funding for rape crisis centers. (en)
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- Susan Clair Lee (Chinese: 李鳳遷; pinyin: Lǐ Fèngqiān; born May 14, 1954) is a member of the Maryland State Senate. She was elected to the Maryland State Senate on November 4, 2014 and had previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates since 2002. Lee represents District 16, which is located in Montgomery County, and includes parts of Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, Kensington, Cabin John, Glen Echo, and Rockville. She is the first Asian American elected to the Maryland State Senate and was the first Asian American woman and first Chinese American to be elected to the Maryland legislature. (en)
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