Government

The current Montgomery County executive is Ike Leggett.

Montgomery County Judicial System.

• Montgomery County Circuit Court.
• Montgomery County District Court.
• Our local prosecutors.

You are in district 5 of the Montgomery County Council.
Your council member is Valerie Ervin

The governor is Martin O'Malley contact
Lieutenant Gov. Anthony G. Brown

Maryland Judiciary.

Our Delegates to the General Assembly of Maryland, 20th district:

• Senator: Jamie Raskin (Takoma Park resident)
• Delegate: Tom Hucker (Takoma Park resident)
• Delegate: Heather Mizeur (Takoma Park resident and former City Councilperson) contact
• Delegate: Sheila Ellis Hixson

The President of the United States is George W. Bush.

The federal judicial branch.
You are in the federal 4th Circuit, one part of which is the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

United States House of Representatives
8th District Maryland

• Christopher Van Hollen Jr. contact

United States Senate
Maryland

• Barbara A. Mikulski contact
• Benjamin L. Cardin contact

• The most important reference for state and local government information in Maryland is the Maryland Manual On-Line: A Guide to Maryland Government
   
• Other places to start include the Maryland Archives
   
• For information on D.C. area governments contact the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
   
• For information of the US Congress try Thomas, a service of the Library of Congress.
   
• If you have specific questions about subjects such as how to replace missing documents, contact your elected officials and the like, you may wish to try a firstgov search.
   
• For a chatty, anonymous, ofttimes sarcastic view of Takoma Park politics, read the Granola Park blog.