Representative Marilyn Lands

Alabama State House, District 10 (AL HD-10)

Representative Marilyn Lands serves in the Alabama House of Representatives, representing District 10, an area just outside Huntsville, Alabama. She is a wife, mother, and community advocate whose Christian faith informs her personal values and approach to public service. Her professional background includes counseling, banking, and the aerospace industry, giving her experience in mental health, business, and economic issues. As a state legislator, Lands’ policy platform includes healthcare access, maternal health, economic affordability, and policies that support Alabama families and communities.

Marilyn Lands’s legislative record includes advocating for maternal healthcare and passing a bipartisan maternal healthcare bill. She introduced the Family Planning Act to protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and contraception and plans to reintroduce the legislation in 2027. She has also pre-filed legislation to establish a clearer process for citizen-led ballot initiatives in Alabama. Her healthcare priorities include improving services in rural and medically underserved communities, expanding Medicaid, increasing investment in midwifery and doula care, and strengthening access to community mental health services. Lands has also secured local funding for community organizations, including Kids to Love’s trauma therapy program and Free 2 Teach.

If re-elected, Marilyn Lands plans to continue advocating for the repeal of Alabama’s near-total abortion ban, Medicaid expansion, increased investment in community mental health services, and expanded access to reproductive healthcare. Her additional policy priorities include eliminating Alabama’s state grocery tax, supporting affordable housing, and strengthening public education. Lands also emphasizes bipartisan cooperation and building relationships across party lines to advance legislation in Alabama’s Republican-majority legislature. Her legislative agenda includes maternal and reproductive healthcare, rural healthcare access, economic affordability, mental health, education, housing, and support for Alabama families.

Rep. Marilyn Lands Campaign Website

FAQ

  • What is Marilyn Lands running for?

    • Representative Lands is running for re-election to the 10th District of Alabama’s State House of Representatives

  • Where is Marilyn Lands’ district?

    • Alabama’s House District 10 is just outside of Huntsville, Alabama

  • What are Marilyn Lands’ priorities?

    • Improving healthcare access and protecting families’ ability to make their own medical decisions

    • Addressing the affordability crisis by repealing the state grocery tax, investing in affordable housing, and raising wages

    • Investing in the infrastructure rapidly growing North Alabama needs, like local schools and libraries, roads, bridges, and transportation

    • Protecting the aerospace, manufacturing, defense and research industries that are the backbone of the economy by strengthening workforce development and investing in education

  • What has Marilyn Lands’ done as elected official?

    • Marilyn introduced and passed the Alabama Maternal Healthcare Act, which expands access to prenatal care and helps mothers and babies get the care they need

    • Introduced and passed a law to require insurance coverage for breast cancer screening

    • Introduced a bill to allow ballot initiatives for laws and constitutional amendments to be initiated by the public

    • Sponsored bills to support rural health through grants to preserve rural hospital services, to expand training, tuition grants and loan forgiveness to expand and support the workforce. 

    • Sponsored bills to expand access to mental health and substance abuse treatment in rural areas, and improve birth outcomes in rural communities 

    • Introduced a bill to recognize the right to contraception and assisted reproduction, including IVF

    • Established a K-12 Mental Health Task Force to identify solutions to the youth mental health crisis

    • Introduced a bill to suspend the state gas tax to provide relief to families and  to exempt food from the state sales and use taxes. 

    • Sponsored bills to revise the voting rights restoration process, establish an Alabama Voting Rights Commission to prevent discrimination in voting

    • Sponsored bills to protect agriculture, research, automotive, steel and advanced manufacturing, aerospace, and tourism industries

Endorsements

  • Alabama AFL-CIO

  • Alabama REALTORS® Political Action Committee

  • Everytown for Gun Safety

  • Her Bold Move

  • Moms Demand Action

  • Persist Alabama PAC

  • Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocate

  • Doug Jones - former US Senator from Alabama and gubernatorial candidate