Justin Ready

Justin D. Ready
Justin Ready at the Kasten for Sheriff Fundraiser in Sykesville, Maryland in 2014.
Member of the Maryland State Senate from District 5
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2, 2015
Preceded by	Joseph M. Getty
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 5A
In office January 12, 2011 – February 2, 2015
Personal details
Born	(1982-04-15) April 15, 1982 (age 42) Mobile, Alabama
Political party	Republican

Justin D. Ready (Pronounced REE-dee) (born April 15, 1982) is member of the Maryland State Senate and a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Justin Ready was born in Mobile, Alabama, but moved to Westminster, Maryland at the age of 11 after living in Mississippi.^[1]

Delegate Ready attends Liberty Church in Westminster, Maryland where his father is a pastor and mother is a public school teacher.^[2]

Delegate Ready attended Carroll Community College and graduated from Salisbury University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in political science.

After college, Ready was a legislative aide to Delegate J. B. Jennings from 2004 until 2006. In 2004, he also served as a field director for E.J. Pipkin during Pipkin's unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate against Barbara Mikulski. In 2006 he became Chief of Staff to Senator Janet Greenip, a position he held until 2008. Additionally, Ready has worked as a self-employed small business owner specializing in printing design, marketing, management, and advertising.

Prior to being elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, Ready was executive director of the Maryland Republican Party from 2008 until 2009. He also served as interim Executive Director from July-December 2011. ^[3]

In January of 2015, Ready resigned his House of Delegates seat in order to accept an appointment from Governor Larry Hogan to the State Senate seat in District 5, vacated by Joseph M. Getty, who took a position with the Governor's staff. The appointment was controversial as the Carroll County Republican Central Committee originally only submitted one name for the vacated State Senate seat, that of former Carroll County Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier, who was defeated in the Republican primary election in her bid for reelection to the said Commissioner seat. Governor Hogan rejected the submitted name and requested three names from which he could choose. Three names were later submitted, that of Robin Bartlett Frazier again, Delegate Ready, and Dave Wallace who had unsuccessfully run for several political positions in the past.^[4]

During his time in the Maryland House of Delegates, Ready helped advise the organization "Change Maryland" which became the largest non-partisan advocacy group in the state. He also served as Maryland Co-Chair of the Rick Perry Presidential Campaign in the early 2012 presidential primary season.

Ready is the Chief Deputy Minority Whip, a position he acquired in 2013. He has been a member of the Health and Government Operations Committee and the Rural Health-Care Work Group since 2011. His current sub-committees are Government Operations and Minority Health Disparities.

Ready is an associate member of the Carroll Women's Republican Club.[1] Ready serves as an assistant football coach at North Carroll High School.

Ready volunteers at the Alpha Pregnancy Centers, the House of Bread Food Distribution, and the Marriage Resource Center.

• 2010 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 5A^[5]

Voters to choose two:

Name	Votes	Percent	Outcome
Justin Ready, Rep.	21,226	38.4%	Won
Nancy R. Stocksdale, Rep.	19,046	34.4%	Won
Francis X. Walsh, Dem.	7,688	13.9%	Lost
Sharon L. Baker, Dem.	7,250	13.1%	Lost
Other Write-Ins	110	0.2%	Lost

• http://justinready.com/
• http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa15445.html

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