Aruna Miller becomes Maryland's first Indian-American lieutenant governor
Aruna Miller has made history by becoming the first Indian-American press to be sworn in as lieutenant governor in the country of Maryland, next to the capital of the United States.
Aruna, 58, a former Maryland residency delegate, set records Wednesday as the Democrat became the state's 10th lieutenant governor
The Lieutenant Governor is the most trusted in the country after the Governor and assumes the role while the Governor is out of the country or incapacitated.
At her inauguration speech, Aruna, born in Andhra Pradesh, met her family who immigrated to the United States from India when she was seven years old.
“I spent most of my existence trying to fit into the area that didn't have me and mine, as an immigrant growing up in a new America,
It took me a long time to understand that it was in no way about having to settle in a space created by others. It was always about having the courage to be myself in every area.”
She was sworn in along with her own family, new Governor Wes Moore and state attorneys in the Senate Chamber at the Annapolis Field House
Moore became Maryland's 63rd governor, the kingdom's first current black CEO and America's best. “To Aruna's mother, Hema and to my mother