16. Aruna Miller
Elected on the same ticket as Moore as his running mate, Miller, who immigrated to the US with her family from India as a child, is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Legislative District 15 in Montgomery County.
After defeating Republican nominee Dan Cox and his running mate Gordana Schifanelli, she became the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States, the first Asian American lieutenant governor, and first immigrant to hold statewide office in Maryland.
17. Anthony Brown
After serving in the U.S. Army for over thirty years, Brown turned his attention to politics serving two four-year terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, then two terms as the eighth lieutenant governor of Maryland between 1999 and 2015. He was also elected to the lieutenant governorship in 2006 alongside Governor Martin O’Malley, both being re-elected in 2010.
He would suffer defeat for the governorship against Republican nominee Larry Hogan in 2014, but by 2021 he decided to not seek reelection to the U.S. House and instead run for attorney general of Maryland. After winning the primaries, he would go on to defeat Republican lawyer Michael Peroutka to become Maryland’s first Black attorney general.
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