---
type: Person
title: "Melissa Wells"
description: "MD House District 40 — MD State House of Representatives District 40"
role: "MD House District 40"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MD"
district: "MD State House of Representatives District 40"
represents: "us/states/md/districts/house/40"
tenure:
  start: "2019-01-09"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "b2b5fee0-4ab3-412d-8ee1-4f1feaeb7c10"
  office: "ee84fa2f-64bb-4bb1-bd2a-dd7ffb133865"
  tenure: "e3e93ba2-15b6-46e6-a9af-2c9ed977d406"
  jurisdiction: "50e81595-ddbc-4f4f-b028-4aa7db3f39dd"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDL (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, md]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Melissa Wells

Current MD House District 40 (MD State House of Representatives District 40).

Represents [MD State House of Representatives District 40](/us/states/md/districts/house/40.md).

## Sources

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

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