Introduction
Rebecca A. Balint is an American politician who was born on May 4, 1968. She is from Windham County, Vermont, and has been a member of the Vermont Senate since 2021.
Since 2021, she has also been the president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate. From 2017 to 2021, she served as the state senate’s majority leader. She belonged to the Democratic Party.
Becca Balint was born in Heidelberg, West Germany, and grew up in Peekskill, New York. She went to Walter Panas High School, Smith College, Harvard, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst for her education. She moved to Vermont in 1994 and worked at Brattleboro, Vermont’s Community College of Vermont.
She represented Brattleboro at town meetings and on the Development Review Board. In 2014, she and Jeanette White were both elected to the state senate. She was the first lesbian to serve in the state senate.
In 2017, the Democratic caucus chose Balint to be the majority leader. In 2021, they chose him to be president pro tempore. She is the first woman and LGBT person in Vermont’s history to be president pro tempore.
Balint is the Democrat who will replace Peter Welch in Vermont’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2022 election. She will be the first woman and the first person who identifies as LGBT to represent Vermont in Congress.
On November 8, Becca Balint was elected to Congress as the first woman to represent Vermont.
Becca Balint Bio
Becca Balint was born REBECCA A. BALINT 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 master’s 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.
She 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.
Becca Balint Early Life & Education
Rebecca A. Balint was born on May 4, 1968, in a US Army hospital in Heidelberg, West Germany.
She was raised in Peekskill, New York, with her parents, Peter and Sandra Balint. Her grandfather died in the Holocaust, and in 1957, her Hungarian-Jewish father came to live in the United States. In 1986, she got her diploma from Walter Panas High School.
Balint has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College, a Master of Education degree from Harvard University (which he got in 1995), and a Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (which he also got in 1995).
She later worked in Brattleboro, Vermont, at the Community College of Vermont.
Balint told another girl she had a crush on her and that she was a lesbian in the sixth grade.
However, she didn’t come out officially until after high school, after “lezzie” was written on her locker and she was treated badly because of it. In 1994, she moved there.
Becca came to Vermont for the first time in 1994 when she got a job as a rock-climbing instructor.
In 1997, she moved here for good. Three years later, she met the woman who would become her wife. They moved to Windham County together.
Becca kept working as a teacher and became a middle school teacher. She taught in four public schools in rural areas.
Becca Balint Personal Life
She met Elizabeth Wohl in 2000, formed a civil union with her in 2004, moved to Brattleboro with her in 2007, and married her in 2009 after same-sex marriage became legal in Vermont. There are two kids in the family.
In the 2000s, Balint was a member of the Vermont Progressive Party and voted for their candidate for governor, Anthony Pollina, in the 2000 election. She represented Brattleboro at town meetings and on the Development Review Board.
Becca Balint Facts & Trivia
Becca fights hard for fairness and justice, and her family’s experiences have shaped the way she thinks about these things.
She was born in a U.S. Army hospital in Germany, and she and her parents and two siblings grew up in upstate New York.
She is the daughter of an immigrant father and a working-class mother, and neither of her parents ever took the rights and freedoms that the U.S.
Constitution gave them for granted. Her grandfather died in the Holocaust, and her father’s family saw firsthand how cruel people can be when the law doesn’t protect the weak or when people turn away from each other and refuse to face growing division in their communities.
Becca chose to always lead with compassion, kindness, and a strong desire to make people’s lives better.
Becca Balint Net Worth & Salary
Reports say that Becca Balint makes about $1,396,690 per year ($742.92 per week) and has a net worth of about $5 million. No official information has been disclosed yet.
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