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Sarah F. Lacey Description

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Sarah F. Lacey Description

In November 2018, Sarah F. Lacey was elected to the County Council to represent the

District One electorate. She is also a Council Engineer, an attorney, a problem solver, an

elected municipal politician, and a candidate for Maryland State Senator in 2022. Ms Lacey's

father was a United States Navy officer, and she spent her youth travelling around the country

as a consequence. Valedictorian: She graduated with the best grade point average from

Matthew Fontaine Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1998. Ms Lacey (previously

Farrar), an aspirant astronaut, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

Cambridge, Massachusetts, but changed her mind and chose to pursue a career in chemical

engineering before finishing her studies (District 1, n.d.). Lacey started working as a process

engineer for a manufacturer of microfiltration membranes, which are used in municipal and

industrial wastewater treatment, as soon as she graduated from the University of Florida in

2002.

After three years, Ms Lacey made the decision to take a new route. She earned a law

degree and a diploma in Law and Public Policy from The Catholic University of America's

Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. She was admitted to the Maryland Bar in

2008. She is married and has two children. She subsequently spent the next ten years

defending individuals and businesses in state and federal courts throughout the nation on a

wide variety of legal problems, including employment law (DeButts, 2018, November 11). In

Jessup, she lives with her husband Keith and their four children, who are all from the

community. The children of this family attend public schools in the Anne Arundel County

public school system. Arundel Woods Homeowners Association in Maryland, where Ms

Lacey had previously served on the board of directors for two years prior to her election to

the position.
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Lacey gained her first political support after drawing attention to the state's ridiculous

school bus policy. She moved into her newly built home in Jessup, Washington, in August

2016, after buying it the year before. She discovered that bus service was inaccessible in her

region since the routes were not designated as public transportation. They did, however,

provide public trash collection along some of the routes as part of their operation. Lacey took

her fight all the way to the school board and county administration, and she won. She had

prevailed. She brought a lot of expertise and experience to an issue affecting a large number

of people in her region when she declared her candidacy for governor in January.

Consequently, she was had to pay the county election board $25 to get voter

information (DeButts, 2018, November 11). It helped her in deciding which doors to knock

on and which to avoid. Lacey, according to the FBI, specifically targeted people in newly

built neighbourhoods. Her comments struck a sympathetic chord with the crowd.

In summary, Lacey's rapid rise to the position of County Council member exemplifies

the unexpected and broad change that has occurred in Anne Arundel County as a result of the

2018 election.
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References
DeButts, J. (2018, November 11). Jimmy DeButts: Sarah Lacey's Anne Arundel County

council win is a tribute to listening. capitalgazette.com.

https://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/ac-cn-debutts-column-1110-story.html

District 1. (n.d.). Anne Arundel County, MD. https://www.aacounty.org/departments/county-

council/councilmembers/district-1/