Career
District 14 includes parts of Silver Spring, Calverton, Colesville, Cloverly, Fairland, Burtonsville, Olney, Brookeville, Laytonsville, Damascus, Ashton and Sandy Spring in Montgomery County. Delegate Taylor was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. He serves on the House Economic Matters Committee and is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Unemployment Insurance.
He is the current Company-Chair of the Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight.
Delegate Taylor served as the Historian of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland in 2003. From 2006–2008 he was the Second Vice Chair of that Caucus and is currently Chairman of the Economic Development Committee and Company-Chair of the Legislative Review Committee.
In 2003, the Maryland State Department of Education presented him with the 2003 Award of Excellence in Education. In 2004, he was named Legislator of the Month by the Center for Policy Alternatives for his work on the Living Wage bill.
He also received the 2008 Public Service Award by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity for his work on securing funding for the Washington, District of Columbia Martin Luther King Junior.
National Memorial. He was named the 2008 Legislator of the Year by the Washington District of Columbia Building and Construction Trades Council. Taylor retired from the House of Delegates to run for Congress in 2010.
In addition to his public service, Delegate Taylor has been the President & Chief Executive Officer of his Deskmate Office Products company for 15 years.
His company is one of the largest minority owned office products distributors in the Washington metropolitan area. In 2010, Herman Taylor announced he was retiring from the House of Delegates to run for Congress in Maryland"s 4th congressional district. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by Donna Edwards.