---
type: Person
title: "Katie Hester"
description: "MD Senate District 9 — MD State Senate District 9"
role: "MD Senate District 9"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MD"
district: "MD State Senate District 9"
represents: "us/states/md/districts/senate/9"
tenure:
  start: "2019-01-09"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "d65ca97b-ddad-46bc-aa51-d4c0677df969"
  office: "ec8027e2-3afd-487b-b565-607078946b21"
  tenure: "df180125-f374-4c55-a6f2-f546cbd3d64b"
  jurisdiction: "421cbcdd-7745-4d0a-9fb0-12200b237793"
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"
---

# Katie Hester

Current MD Senate District 9 (MD State Senate District 9).

Represents [MD State Senate District 9](/us/states/md/districts/senate/9.md).

## Sources

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

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