Becca Balint, president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate, announces her candidacy for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives at a press conference in Montpelier on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
From legislature.vermont.
Rebecca A. Balint of Brattleboro, Windham County, Democrat, was born in a US Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany where her dad was stationed. She was raised predominantly in upstate New York and attended public schools in Peekskill. She received her BA from Smith College in Northampton, MA, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Rebecca earned her masters in education from Harvard University in 1995 and her MA in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001. Her career in education has been spent teaching in public and private schools in New England, as well as at the Community College of Vermont.
Becca first moved to Vermont in 1994 to teach rock climbing at the Farm and Wilderness Foundation in Plymouth and relocated permanently to Vermont in 1997. During her first term Rebecca served on the Institutions Committee and the Economic Development and Housing Committee, as well as the Judicial Rules Committee. During her 2nd term she was made vice chair of the Education Committee, and continued to serve on the Economic Development Committee. She was elected to the position of Senate Majority Leader and was also appointed Chair of the Senate Sexual Harassment Prevention Panel. In her 3rd term she was re-elected to the position of Senate Majority Leader. When she’s not running around the statehouse, she’s running in Hubbard Park. Rebecca lives in Brattleboro with her wife, attorney Elizabeth R. Wohl and their two children.