Linda Lamone

Linda H. Lamone is an American lawyer and election official who served as the Maryland State Administrator of Elections from 1997 to 2023. She was previously special counsel to lieutenant governor Melvin Steinberg.

Education Lamone earned a bachelor's degree with high honors from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed a J.D. with honors from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The firm later dissolved, and she entered private legal practice on her own in 1990. That same year, the General Assembly passed legislation making it more difficult to remove the elections administrator, which became informally referred to as the "Linda Lamone for Life Act." She continued to serve as elections administrator through multiple election cycles, including those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland. Lamone announced her retirement in 2023, stating that she planned to step down sometime that summer.

Personal life Lamone was married to Rudolph Lamone, a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and former dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. He died in early 2023.

Lamone chaired the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission.