Nancy Wallace is running as the Green Party candidate for Maryland's 8th Congressional District in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election. She faces Jamie Raskin (Democratic) and Cheryl Riley (Republican), according to BallotReady.

Wallace ran for the same seat in 2024, receiving 2.5% of the vote with 9,612 votes, according to Maryland Matters. She also ran as the Green Party candidate for governor of Maryland in 2022, receiving 0.73% of the vote.

Her campaign does not accept corporate, PAC or union money and is entirely volunteer-based, according to her campaign website.

Candidate information

  • Party: Green
  • Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland. Wallace was born on Long Island, New York, in 1956 and moved with her family to Bethesda at six months of age, according to her campaign website.
  • Education: Bachelor's in political science, Yale University; one year of law school at the University of Virginia; high school diploma, Walt Whitman High School.
  • Green Party involvement: Wallace said she joined the Green Party in 2003 and began active participation in the Montgomery County group in 2013. She has served as co-chair of the Montgomery County Green Party since February 2015, according to her campaign website.
  • Personal: Wallace said she has been a mentor for at-risk children for 21 years and has three mentor children and two mentor grandchildren.

Experience and public service

Wallace's background spans environmental advocacy, federal IT contracting and government advisory roles, according to her campaign website and BallotReady profile data.

She said she represented the International Fund for Animal Welfare and mobilized Senate support to stop the clubbing of harp and hooded seals in Canada. She also said 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 said she obtained a two-thirds majority Senate commitment to continue U.S. support for the world whaling moratorium.

Wallace served as an environmental representative and advisor at the U.S. departments of State and Commerce for the 1985 Tokyo Meeting of the Parties of the North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty, according to her campaign website. She also served as director of Sierra Club Washington from 1990 to 1994, according to BallotReady.

In the private sector, Wallace said she worked as an IT contractor on Department of Defense projects for the Department of Navy and Marine Corps. She said she performed the 2008 independent verification and validation of Treasury's enterprise architecture self-assessment. She describes herself as a process engineer certified in Capability Maturity Model Integrated.

Wallace also founded Sustainable Montgomery and the International Entanglement Network, according to BallotReady. She serves on the board of directors of the Center for Safer Wireless, according to her campaign website.

At Walt Whitman High School, Wallace said she founded the Environmental Club, contributed to a secondary school textbook for hands-on environmental education and organized a national conference of the Institute for Environmental Education at Catoctin National Park. She said she received the Environmental Award of Excellence from the president for "outstanding achievement in environmental services" while in high school.

On the issues

Health care: Wallace said 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 said she supports reproductive choice and access to contraception and abortion, and advocates for federally funded research into male contraception, according to her campaign website.

Climate change: Wallace said she calls for Congress to recommend the president declare a national emergency to address climate change. She said she supports an emergency economic transformation to 100% renewable energy. She also said she supports creating a "Reverse Climate Change Corps" modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps, phasing out federal tax subsidies for petroleum and nuclear industries, and improving public transportation to reduce private car dependence, according to her campaign website.

Campaign finance: Wallace said her campaign is entirely volunteer-based and does not accept corporate, PAC or union money.

Endorsements

The following endorsements are listed 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 landmark Moderate Priced Dwelling Unit legislation

Robinson said of Wallace: "She knows what she's talking about, and she knows how to get things done. She's the one."

Candidate responses are drawn from Wallace's campaign website and BallotReady. Policy positions reflect the candidate's own statements unless otherwise noted.