2022 race briefing
Donna Edwards represented Maryland’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House from June 2008 to January 2017. She left the House to run for the U.S. Senate in 2016 and lost the Democratic primary to Chris Van Hollen.
Before Congress, Edwards worked as an attorney, a clerk, a District of Columbia Superior Court judge, and executive director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She was born in Yanceyville, North Carolina, and earned degrees from Wake Forest University and the Franklin Pierce Law Center.
In 2022 she ran for the 4th District seat again. In the July 19, 2022 Democratic primary she finished second with 35.2%, behind Glenn Ivey at 51.8%. Ivey went on to win the November 8, 2022 general election. PolRev covered her 2022 campaign.