Anne Kaiser

Kaiser is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, College Park teaching a course on women in politics and an adjunct professor at Montgomery College teaching an Introduction to Political Science course. In 2016, she was a facilitator/teacher for the Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows program.

On February 23, 2013, Kaiser became engaged to her long-time partner, Nancy C. Lineman. On November 2, 2013, they got married and now live in the Calverton neighborhood of Silver Spring. They are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter Allison Joan "AJ" Lineman in May of 2019.

During the 2004 legislative session, Kaiser testified on behalf of H.B. 1284: Medical Decision-Making Act and in her testimony announced that she is a lesbian. In making this announcement, she joined openly gay Maryland legislators Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh and then-Delegate Rich Madaleno (later a senator and now a county's budget director).

While a member of the House of Delegates, Kaiser maintains her activism in community organizations. She has served as the House of Delegates liaison for Committee for Montgomery. Kaiser was also selected by Speaker Michael Busch to be in the inaugural class of the Howard P. Rawlings Leadership Fellowship Program. Previously, she was active with the Girls in Information Technology Taskforce, the Carl M. Freeman Foundation and is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery. In 2004, she was elected as a Kerry delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

Kaiser was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002, and was reelected in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018. Kaiser was appointed as chair of the Ways and Means Committee in January 2017.

After completing graduate school, Kaiser worked as an economist at the IRS from December 1995 until April 2002. During that time she was a member of the Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee, the Rockville Branch of the American Association of University Women (serving as membership VP and secretary), and continued coaching youth basketball. She served in leadership positions as chair of the Mid-County Citizens' Advisory Board and co-coordinator of the Montgomery County Women's Fair. In 1998, she was elected to a 4-year term on the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee.

Anne R. Kaiser (born February 10, 1968) is an American politician from the state of Maryland who serves as chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the Maryland House of Delegates, where she represents the 14th district, which includes parts of Silver Spring, Calverton, Colesville, Cloverly, Fairland, Burtonsville, Spencerville, Olney, Brookeville, Ashton, Sandy Spring, Brinklow, Laytonsville, Sunshine, Goshen, and Damascus in Montgomery County.

Kaiser was born in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1968, and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. She graduated from Rockville High School and then attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a B.A. in political science in 1990. She received two master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1995, a master's in public policy and a master's in educational studies.