--- type: Person title: "Clarence Lam" description: "MD Senate District 12 — MD State Senate District 12" role: "MD Senate District 12" party: "D" level: "state" branch: "legislative" state: "MD" district: "MD State Senate District 12" represents: "us/states/md/districts/senate/12" tenure: start: "2019-01-09" current: true election: term_length: 2 term_limit: "varies" ids: person: "55d8510a-a7a5-4c86-bb7e-47ac8c866c3a" office: "3f993ef9-497b-4840-9132-7c7ab38cd30e" tenure: "399988f6-3ff4-4dc7-a8ac-53fbada9e7cb" jurisdiction: "e0168538-2a5c-4d82-ad11-d7c0bfbcd076" sources: - field: tenure source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20" - field: jurisdiction source: "SLDU (Census 2025)" confidence: official tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, md] timestamp: "2026-07-04" --- # Clarence Lam Current MD Senate District 12 (MD State Senate District 12). Represents [MD State Senate District 12](/us/states/md/districts/senate/12.md). ## Sources - tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20 - jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025) Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).