Trent Kittleman
American politician
Trent M. Kittleman (née Mitchell; born May 7, 1945) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2023. She was the wife of State Senator Robert H. Kittleman until his death in 2004, and unsuccessfully ran alongside him for County Council in 1978. She is the stepmother of Allan H. Kittleman, former state senator and Howard County executive.
After losing re-election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2022, Kittleman aligned herself with the Howard County chapter of Moms for Liberty and ran for the Howard County Board of Education, losing to Andrea Chamblee in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Kittleman is the author of Why Must There Be Dragons? Empowering Women to Master Their Careers Without Changing Men.
Early life and education
Kittleman was born on May 7, 1945, in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from Catonsville Senior High School in Catonsville, Maryland and attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she earned a B.A. degree in English in 1967. She also attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a M.A. in English literature in 1970, the University of Maryland School of Law, where she earned a J.D. degree in 1991, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she earned an executive leadership coaching certificate in 2010.
Career
Attorney
After she was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1991 – and later being admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1993 – she began working as an attorney for Arent Fox until 1996.
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