Shenna Bellows
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| Member of the Maine Senate from the 14th District | |
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Assumed office December 7, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Earle McCormick |
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Shenna Lee Bellows March 23, 1975 Greenfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Brandon Baldwin (2012–present) |
| Alma mater | Middlebury College |
Shenna Lee Bellows (born March 23, 1975) is an American political activist and a former non-profit executive director, best known for her work with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the current Maine State Senator from the 14th District.
Bellows was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Maine, in the 2014 election, but was defeated by incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. She currently serves as a member of the Maine Senate from District 14, having assumed office on December 7, 2016.
Shenna Bellows was born on March 23, 1975, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the eldest daughter of Dexter Bellows, a carpenter, and Janice Colson, a nurse. She grew up in Hancock, Maine, where she attended Hancock Grammar School. Bellows grew up in a struggling family; they did not have running water or electricity, which the family could not afford, until she was in the fifth grade.
When Bellows was 15, she was an AFS-USA foreign exchange student in Campos, Brazil. Bellows graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1993. During high school and college, Bellows worked as a research assistant at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. She then attended Middlebury College, graduating magna cum laude in 1997 with highest honors for her thesis in economic and environmental sustainability. During her junior year, she studied for a semester as an exchange student in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Bellows served as Executive Director of the ACLU of Maine for eight years. In that role, she built coalitions with both Republicans and Democrats to pass privacy and civil rights laws. She was a leader of Mainers United for Marriage, working for seven years to pass same-sex marriage in Maine. She was a leader on voting rights and co-chaired the 2011 Protect Maine Votes campaign to restore same day voter registration. Most recently, she organized a successful privacy campaign to require warrants for access to private cell phone communications, and she led the opposition to warrantless drone surveillance.
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