Aisha N. Braveboy

During the Democratic Primary, her campaign received endorsements from various labor unions, including the Washington D.C. Building and Construction Trades Council and International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1619.

Aisha Nazapa Braveboy (born July 29, 1974) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the state's attorney of Prince George's County, Maryland since 2018.

She graduated from Largo High School and later attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where she earned a bachelor of art degree in government and politics in 1997.

Afterwards, Braveboy earned her Juris Doctor degree from the Howard University School of Law in 2000.

After graduating, Braveboy became an associate with Bowie, Maryland law firm Gabriel J. Christian & Associates.

From 2000 to 2002, she worked as an attorney for the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.

Braveboy first got involved in politics in 2002, when she worked on the county executive campaign of Jack B. Johnson.

From 2003 to 2005, she worked as an advisor to Prince George's County officials.

Afterwards, Braveboy worked in the Office of Central Services, where she managed properties owned or leased by the county.

In 2003, Braveboy started the Community Public Awareness Council nonprofit, which sought to provide mental health services and workshops to first-time juvenile offenders and their families to reduce truancy.

In 2006, Braveboy ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 25, seeking to succeed state delegate Anthony Brown, who ran for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.

She was previously a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing the 25th district from 2007 to 2015.

Braveboy was born in Washington, D.C., to father Cuthbert and mother Norma Braveboy, who migrated to the United States from Saint Patrick Parish, Grenada.

Braveboy was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 10, 2007.

During her tenure, she supported legislation to reduce mass incarceration and domestic violence, and to protect homeowners from deceptive lenders.

From 2012 to 2014, Braveboy served as the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.

In this position, she advocated for increased funding for historically black colleges and universities and opposed legislation setting mandatory minimum sentences.

On September 19, 2013, Braveboy filed to run for Attorney General of Maryland.

Her platform included supporting the state's historically black colleges and universities, opposing the death penalty, and fighting against large polluters.

In 2013, Braveboy introduced a bill to remove the check box that asks if applicants have a criminal record from hiring applications for state jobs.

The bill passed and was signed into law by Governor Martin O'Malley.

She also voted in favor of legislation to repeal the death penalty, which passed the House of Delegates by a 82–56 vote.

Braveboy was defeated by state senator Brian Frosh in the Democratic Primary on June 24, 2014, placing last with 20.1 percent of the vote.

If elected, she would have been Maryland's first African American attorney general.

On November 9, 2017, Braveboy announced her candidacy for state's attorney of Prince George's County.

She ran on a progressive platform that included prosecuting domestic violence, expanding county diversion programs, and prosecuting repeat violent offenders.

Braveboy led the Democratic Primary in endorsements, which included the Prince George's County Fraternal Order of Police, correctional officers union, and various labor unions.

Following her defeat, Braveboy worked as a lobbyist for the Children's National Health System and the Innovations Group LLC until 2018.

She won the Democratic Primary on June 26, 2018, receiving 62.8 percent of the vote, and ran unopposed in the general election.

Braveboy ran for reelection unopposed in 2022.

Braveboy was sworn in as state's attorney on January 7, 2019.

Upon being sworn in, she named juvenile justice reform and crackdowns on illegal guns as her top priorities while in office.

In 2019, Braveboy created the state's first conviction and sentencing integrity unit to weigh new consideration for county convictions and sentencings, which led to the release of seven people sentenced to life as juveniles.

Later that year, she announced that the county would no longer recommend cash bail as a condition of release, instead requesting alternatives including counseling, drug testing, and mental health evaluations.

In March 2020, after Prince George's County recorded its first case of COVID-19, Braveboy sought the release of 150 pretrial defendants to reduce the spread of the virus.

During the 2020 legislative session, Braveboy supported legislation to make strangulation a first-degree felony assault and another bill to allow prosecutors to pursue hate crime charges for acts "motivated in part" by hate.

In October 2020, she launched an initiative to support victims of domestic violence and strangulation.

In May 2021, following a national spike in carjackings, Braveboy launched a task force to increase awareness and prevention of carjackings in Prince George's County, which collaborated with community organizers to host community-focused events and broadcast commercials targeting young people.

She also worked with U.S. Attorney Erek Barron to prosecute carjackings.

In August 2021, Braveboy endorsed efforts encouraging the Biden administration to create a task form to reform the justice system to be less punitive and more equitable.