Senator Ron Watson has served in the Maryland Senate since August 2021, after representing District 23B in the House of Delegates from January 2019.
He sits on the Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment and its Education and Energy subcommittees, the Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Biotechnology. He joined the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland in 2019, serving as its Treasurer in 2021 and 2022.
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1966, he holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University, an M.S. in Advanced Technology and a PhD in Systems Science from Binghamton University, and an M.B.A. from George Washington University. He served as a Major in the United States Army Reserves from 1989 to 2006. His career includes program management at Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and IBM Global Services, and he is President of Watson Management Corporation.
