Green Party nominee Nancy Wallace is running for Maryland's 8th Congressional District in the Nov. 3, 2026 general election.
Wallace, who says she has lived in Bethesda since infancy, faces Jamie Raskin (Democratic) and Cheryl Riley (Republican). She describes herself as a process engineer. In the 2024 general election, Wallace received 2.5% of the vote with 9,612 votes in the same race, according to Maryland Matters. She also ran as the Green Party candidate for governor of Maryland in 2022, receiving 0.73% of the vote.
The information below is drawn from Wallace's campaign website, BallotReady and Maryland Matters reporting. Candidate-supplied statements are attributed to Wallace.
Candidate information
- Party: Green
- Residence: Wallace says she was born in Long Island, New York, in 1956 and moved with her family to Bethesda at six months of age.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in political science, Yale University; one year of law school at the University of Virginia; high school diploma, Walt Whitman High School.
- Green Party role: Wallace says she joined the Green Party in 2003 and has served as co-chair of the Montgomery County Green Party since February 2015.
- Campaign finance: Wallace says her campaign does not accept any corporate, PAC or union money. It is entirely volunteer-based.
Experience and public service
Wallace describes a career spanning environmental advocacy, federal IT contracting and government advisory roles.
She says she represented the International Fund for Animal Welfare, mobilizing Senate support to stop the clubbing of harp and hooded seals in Canada. She also says she created and led a five-year national coalition that stopped U.S. clubbing of northern Pacific fur seals in the Pribilof Islands.
Representing Monitor International, Wallace says she obtained a two-thirds majority Senate commitment to continue U.S. support for the world whaling moratorium. According to BallotReady, she served as director of Sierra Club Washington from 1990 to 1994 and founded the International Entanglement Network and Sustainable Montgomery.
Wallace says she served as an environmental representative and advisor to the U.S. departments of State and Commerce at the 1985 Tokyo meeting of the North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty. She says she worked as an IT contractor for the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps and performed a 2008 verification of Treasury's enterprise architecture self-assessment. She also says she served as data coordinator for ecological restoration projects at the Department of Commerce.
Wallace says she has been a mentor for at-risk children for 21 years. She has three mentor children and two mentor grandchildren, according to her campaign website.
On the issues
Health care: Wallace says she supports a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system that would redirect administrative waste from private insurance corporations into patient care. She also says she supports reproductive choice and access to contraception and abortion, and advocates for federally funded research into male contraception.
Climate change: Wallace says she supports Congress recommending the president declare a national emergency to address climate change. She calls for an emergency economic transformation to 100% renewable energy. She says she supports creating a "Reverse Climate Change Corps" modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps. She also calls for phasing out federal tax subsidies for petroleum and nuclear industries and improving public transportation to reduce private car dependence.
Endorsements
The following endorsements appear on Wallace's campaign website:
- Mary Tyrtle Rooker, Takoma Park activist
- Dan Robinson, Takoma Park City Council
- Bill Sher, Montgomery County Council past president (1970–74), author of the Moderate Priced Dwelling Unit legislation
