State Representative Carey Hamilton was first elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 2016.

She serves as the Democratic Caucus Chair, is a member of the Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications and Roads and Transportation committees. Prior to serving in leadership, she sat on the influential Ways and Means and State Budget Committees. She is also a member of the Statutory Committee on Ethics and is the founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Indiana Legislative Trails Caucus. She has led the successful effort to deliver legislative funding for trails ($90 million over two budget cycles) and wrote legislation to create Indiana's EV Product Commission which she now serves on.

She is also a leader on early education and childcare policy within the Democratic Caucus.

In 2022, Hamilton received the Rails to Trails Conservancy's national Rail Trail Champion Award and in 2021, Hamilton received the Indiana Greenways Award for Outstanding Public Official, honoring her work in the General Assembly to advance trail access for all Hoosiers. That same year, she also received the Indiana Wildlife Federation's Conservation Champion Award. Hamilton earned the 2020 Civility in Government Award from the Association of Retired Members of the Indiana General Assembly and in 2019 was named Legislator of the Year by the Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation for supporting key proposals regarding health, the environment and restorative justice during the 2019 General Assembly session.

Carey Hamilton most recently worked as an executive in the climate tech sector. She has also served as a nonprofit executive and has worked in the environmental field for more than 25 years.