Chapter 14: Maryland State Senate: The Oath and the Office

Mary Beth Carozza was raised in Ocean City, Maryland, growing up on the Shore and working in her family’s business, “Beefy’s.” She attended Ocean City Elementary School, Berlin Middle School, and graduated from Stephen Decatur High School in 1979, playing on the tennis team and competing in tournaments in Salisbury and throughout the Eastern Shore. After high school, she went on to graduate from The Catholic University of America with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy and a Master of Arts Degree in American Government, while also completing the Harvard Senior Managers Government summer program.

Her parents are Mary Pat and Tony Carozza, long-time local community and church leaders, who currently reside in Ocean Pines. She continues the family tradition as an active and long-time member of St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Ocean City where she is also the fifth-grade Sunday school teacher. Mary Beth comes from a close-knit family where she is the oldest of four siblings and a proud aunt of four nephews and three nieces.