Former T. Rowe Price Executive, Treasury Official Joins Mayoral Race

Mary Miller, a former U.S. Treasury official and a longtime Baltimore resident, announced Tuesday her plans to run for mayor.

She officially launched her campaign with an event Tuesday evening at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.





“When I was starting out, my first jobs were at a supermarket and a donut shop. I always believed I could get ahead with education and hard work, but that’s not true for many of us here in Baltimore," Miller said in a statement. "Structural racism and inequality have trapped too many Baltimore families into generations of poverty. That’s what has to change for Baltimore to be a great city, and it’s why I’m running for Mayor. We need fundamental changes to raise income and wealth for those who have been left behind.”

A graduate of Cornell and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Miller spent 26 years at T. Rowe Price, including 10 years running the Maryland Bond Fund. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed her assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial markets. In 2012, she became the department's undersecretary for domestic finance. She also served as acting deputy secretary for a time before she left the government in September 2014.

Candidates have until Jan. 24 to file for the primary election.