Brooke Grossman

Grossman was born on September 25, 1978, in Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan. She graduated from Brunswick High School and attended Kaplan University, where she earned a B.S. degree in human service administration in 2016.^[1]

Grossman currently works as the chief mission officer for Horizon Goodwill Industries^[2][3] and chairs the county's homeless coalition.^[4]

In May 2018, the Washington County Board of Commissioners appointed Grossman to a three-year term as a citizen at-large representative to its Emergency Services Advisory Council.^[5]

In 2020, Grossman unsuccessfully ran for in the Hagerstown City Council,^[6] placing seventh with 8.7 percent of the vote.^[7]

In 2022, Grossman ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 2B, challenging incumbent state delegate Brenda J. Thiam. She won the Democratic primary on July 19, 2022, receiving 61.3 percent of the vote,^[8] and later defeated Thiam in the general election on November 8.^[2][9]

Grossman was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 11, 2023.^[10] She is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.^[11] In November 2024, Grossman said that she would resign from the House of Delegates on December 13, 2024, after she and her family moved out of the district.^[12]

In January 2022, Grossman requested that the Washington County Board of Commissioners provide $10,000 in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help with the costs of quarantining COVID-19 positive homeless people. The motion for the request was approved 4-0 by the Board of Commissioners.^[4]

In February 2022, Grossman criticized a petition released by state delegate Brenda J. Thiam against the newly drawn legislative redistricting maps.^[13]

In May 2022, Grossman signed a Chesapeake Climate Action Network resolution to move Maryland to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035 and to remove trash incineration from the state's "clean energy" classification.^[14]

Grossman is married with six children.^[1]