Marie Pinkney

Legislative Information
District: 7
First elected in: State Senator: 2020
Current Senate Committees:

Corrections & Public Safety Committee, Chair
Housing Committee, Vice Chair
Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee, Vice Chair
Agriculture Committee, Vice Chair
Health & Social Services Committee
Environment & Energy Committee

Personal Information
Education:

Howard High School of Technology, Class of 2008
Norfolk State University, Social Work (B.A.) Class of 2013
Delaware State University, Social Work, (M.S.) Class of 2014

Current Occupation:

Legislator
Trauma social worker and case manager, ChristinaCare’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Past Occupations:

Previously worked for treatment center for adolescents with mental health and substance abuse issues

Biography:
Sen. Marie Pinkney represents the 13th District, which stretches from the Christiana River south to Red Lion Road and encompasses dozens of neighborhoods along Route 13.

Raised by her great aunt in Wilmington and New Castle, Pinkney graduated from Howard High School of Technology. She earned her bachelor’s degree in social work from Norfolk State University and a master’s degree in social work from Delaware State University.

After graduate school, she began working at a treatment center for adolescents with mental health and substance abuse issues. She also became the foster mother to a teen mother and her young son for many years.

Sen. Pinkney currently works as a trauma social worker/case manager in ChristinaCare’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit, where she provides advocacy, discharge planning services and emotional support for patients and families. She has dedicated her career to advocating alongside families seeking quality healthcare, access to resources, educational support, and government policies that support them.

Sen. Pinkney became the first African American LGBTQ+ person ever elected to the Delaware Senate in 2020. She is dedicated to fighting the negative impacts of racial and socioeconomic inequalities, as well as the stigmas and hurdles faced by formerly justice-involved individuals and those with limited educational backgrounds.

She currently serves as chair of the Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee, and vice chair of the Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee, the Senate Housing Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee. She is also a member of the Senate Health Committee and the Senate Environment & Energy Committee.

She lives in Bear with her 3-year-old German Shepherd Gandhi and her 12-year-old cat Lilly.

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Legislative Contact Information
Senator Marie Pinkney
411 Legislative Avenue
Dover, DE 19901
(302) 744-4167
Marie.Pinkney@delaware.gov

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