---
type: Person
title: "Joanne Benson"
description: "MD Senate District 24 — MD State Senate District 24"
role: "MD Senate District 24"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MD"
district: "MD State Senate District 24"
represents: "us/states/md/districts/senate/24"
tenure:
  start: "2011-01-12"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "984279bc-2c01-4190-8e1c-32a237e045d9"
  office: "536812ca-9782-4611-9712-238f3a91ee0c"
  tenure: "10c8df81-56c4-4c45-85de-2452166d8e26"
  jurisdiction: "5eb87370-3ae7-46f7-9af8-f8762ad4beab"
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"
---

# Joanne Benson

Current MD Senate District 24 (MD State Senate District 24).

Represents [MD State Senate District 24](/us/states/md/districts/senate/24.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).