Ana Sol Gutierrez

Ana Sol Gutierrez (born January 11, 1942) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Maryland who was the first Latina to ever be elected to the Maryland General Assembly. She served four terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Montgomery County in Maryland's 18th district. Gutierrez sat on the Appropriations Committee and was chair of the Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force beginning in 2006. In 2003, Gutierrez was the first Latina elected to state office.

In 2016, Gutierrez ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in Maryland's 8th Congressional District, ultimately being defeated by Jamie Raskin.

Background Gutierrez was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador and came to the United States with her family in 1947. She attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School where she graduated in 1960, before moving on to Pennsylvania State University, garnering a B.S. in chemistry in 1964. Furthermore, she earned an M.S. in technology of management, scientific & technical information systems from American University, and did her postgraduate studies in applied engineering at George Washington University. Gutierrez has served in all three levels of government. As a deputy administrator in the Transportation Department during the Clinton Administration, on the Montgomery County School Board, and as a Delegate for the 18th District. She was the first Latina to represent Montgomery County in the General Assembly , as well as the first Salvadoran-American to be elected to public office in the United States. She opposes a two-tier licensing system which would issue driving permits to undocumented immigrants, but which would not conform to the Real ID standards which would be the default for Maryland driving permits issued to qualified Marylanders, because "n this climate, that's a scarlet letter". Governor Martin O'Malley later directed the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration to phase in compliance to the Real ID standards by 2010.