Maggie Goodlander is an American lawyer, former Naval Reserve intelligence officer, and Democratic politician, representing New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district in the United States. She defeated Republican Lily Tang Williams in the 2024 general election and was sworn in on January 3, 2025.
Prior to joining Congress, Goodlander held senior posts in both the U.S. Department of Justice and the White House. She also worked on the staff of Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain and clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer. She has had a career in law, national security, antitrust policy, military duty, and public affairs.
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| Real Name: | Margaret Vivian Goodlander |
| Birth Date: | November 4, 1986 |
| Age (as of 2026): | 39 Years |
| Birth Place: | Nashua, New Hampshire, USA |
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| Parents: | Ted Goodlander & Betty Tamposi |
| Husband: | Jake Sullivan |
Early Life
Maggie Goodlander was born on 4th November 1986, Nashua, New Hampshire, which makes her 39 years old as of 2026. She was born on election day, and her parents were on their way to the hospital after voting. Her family has been in Nashua for over 100 years, Goodlander said.
Her New Hampshire upbringing influenced her eventual decision to run for politics. Goodlander grew up in a politically engaged family in New Hampshire. Her maternal grandfather was a big real estate developer, Samuel Tamposi. He also had ties to the Boston Red Sox.
Tamposi’s mother, Betty Tamposi, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and later served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs under President George H. W. Bush.
Family & Education
The Goodlanders have been a powerful family in New Hampshire politics and industry. Her mother was a failed Republican congressional candidate in the same district in 1988. Goodlander then went politically astray and became a Democrat.
Maggie Goodlander had a stillbirth in 2023 after doctors diagnosed an unfortunate fetal abnormality. She later spoke publicly about the incident, tying it to her work on reproductive rights. Goodlander graduated from Groton School in Massachusetts in 2005.
She then went on to Yale University and earned a B.A. in history in 2009. During her undergraduate years, she has conducted research in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Libya. She was an academic and interested in international relations and the Middle East.
Maggie Goodlander received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2016. She earned a law degree, coveted clerkships, and prestigious government jobs. Goodlander also taught constitutional law at Dartmouth and at the University of New Hampshire.
Career
Maggie Goodlander’s Washington career started in 2009 as a foreign policy aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman, a role he held until 2011. She also worked for the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and Sen. John McCain. She started out in national security and foreign policy.
She spent more than a decade as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She served in the military until she reached the rank of lieutenant in 2022. Most of her career had been spent in intelligence. Goodlander is a Yale Law School graduate and was a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Chief Judge Merrick Garland from 2016 to 2017.
She was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 2017-2018. She later worked on the House Judiciary Committee staff for the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. Maggie Goodlander joined the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Justice.
She served as counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland and then as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division. Her focus was on competition policy and business monopolies. In 2024 she was named a senior adviser to the White House, working on Biden’s Unity Agenda.
Maggie Goodlander announced her candidacy for Congress in May 2024 in New Hampshire’s 2nd District. She won the Democratic primary with almost 64 percent of the vote. In November, she defeated Lily Tang Williams by about 53% to 47%. She was sworn in in January 2025.
By 2026 Goodlander was on the Armed Services, Small Business, and Veterans Affairs committees. In her freshman term in Congress, she has focused on national security, veterans, competition policy, housing, and economic issues.
Personal Life
Maggie Goodlander is married to Jake Sullivan, an American lawyer and foreign policy expert who served as the U.S. national security adviser to President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. The couple met working in Washington foreign-policy circles and married June 6, 2015, in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sullivan advised President Barack Obama, Vise President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before joining Biden’s team as national security adviser. He exited the administration in 2025 to become faculty at Harvard Kennedy School.
Goodlander and Sullivan have kept their family life largely private, while both have had high-profile careers in public service. Goodlander had a pregnancy loss in 2023 after doctors learned of a fatal fetal condition and she later spoke out publicly about the experience advocating for reproductive health. The couple are still married as of 2026 and live in New Hampshire.
Social Media
Maggie Goodlander maintains an active presence across social media, using these platforms to communicate with constituents and discuss her work in Congress. Her personal and campaign X account is @MaggieG603, while her official congressional account is @RepGoodlander.
Her campaign Instagram account uses @maggiefornh, and her official House office also maintains accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, YouTube, and TikTok. Her posts primarily cover congressional work, New Hampshire community events, policy issues, national security, and messages to constituents.
Maggie Goodlander Salary and Net Worth
Maggie Goodlander’s net worth isn’t officially recognized as one figure. Her financial disclosures to Congress show a sizable amount of inherited and trust property, including real estate and investment holdings. Her most recent statement, issued in June 2026, listed assets with reported values in the millions of dollars.
Her net worth was estimated to be approximately $11 million as of June 2026 by Quiver Quantitative, but this is an outside estimate, not a government valuation. Now her main identifiable publicly held employment income is her congressional salary.
She has had income in the past from high-profile legal and government jobs. Her financial disclosures also show investments and trust holdings that could earn dividends, interest, rent, capital gains, and other income. But the disclosures required by Congress list assets in ranges, so her precise net worth cannot be calculated directly from the forms.
