Nancy Wallace

Nancy Wallace is the Green Party nominee for Maryland's 8th Congressional District and a federal-contract data coordinator with a background in environmental lobbying. She has run for office as a Green Party candidate several times, including for governor in 2022, and describes her campaign as focused on climate and economic transformation.[1][2]

Wallace was born in Long Island, New York, in 1956 and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, according to her campaign website; she graduated from Walt Whitman High School.[1][2] She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale University and, according to her campaign website, attended the University of Virginia law school for one year.[1][2]

Wallace describes spending about 14 years lobbying Congress on international environmental issues, including founding the International Entanglement Network (1983-85) and serving as the Sierra Club's Washington Director for its International Population Program (1990-94).[1] She also co-founded Sustainable Montgomery.[2] From 1994 she says she worked as a federal information-technology contractor (Electronic Data Systems, later Computer Sciences Corporation) and later supported the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps; she currently supports the Department of Commerce as a data coordinator for ecological restoration projects.[1]

Wallace joined the Green Party in 2003 and, according to her campaign website, has co-chaired the Montgomery County Green Party since February 2015.[1] She ran for U.S. House in Maryland's 8th District in 2016 and 2024 and was the Green nominee for governor in 2022, receiving 0.7%.[2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.