In 1995 at the age of 25, Council Vice President Stephanie Rawlings Blake became the youngest person ever elected to the Baltimore City Council.
She is a 1988 graduate of Western High School, a 1992 graduate of Oberlin College and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1995. Vice President Rawlings Blake was admitted to the Maryland Bar Association in 1996 and the Federal Bar in 1997. She is currently employed as an attorney for the Office of the Public Defender.
In her first term of office, Vice President Rawlings Blake was the lead sponsor of successful legislation to eliminate illegal dumping in Baltimore City, as well as the lead sponsor of legislation to address the police misconduct of profiling.
