2021 Special Session
Change SessionSenator Ruth Hardy
- District
- Addison District
- Party
- Democrat
- Seat Number
- 19
- rhardy@leg.state.vt.us
- Home Address
- P.O. Box 343, East Middlebury, VT 05740
- Home Phone
- (802) 989-5278
- Committees
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- Senate Committee on Finance
- Senate Committee on Health and Welfare, Vice Chair
- Senate Sexual Harassment Panel, Chair
- Canvassing Committee
- Joint Committee on Judicial Retention
- Legislative Advisory Committee on the State House
- Senate Workgroup on Transition Challenges
- Vermont Forest Carbon Sequestration Working Group
- Advisory Council on Special Education
- Building Bright Futures Council
- Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee
- Biography
- Ruth Hardy of East Middlebury, Addison County, Democrat was raised in central New York State in the Ithaca area, where her mother was a teacher and her father was a state civil servant. Ruth received a BA in Government from Oberlin College in Ohio and a master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Following graduate school, Ruth was a Fiscal Analyst for the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau covering education issues. She moved to East Middlebury, Vermont in 2002. In addition to the ongoing work of raising three children, Ruth has been Executive Director of the Open Door Clinic, Assistant Budget Director at Middlebury College, and Government Grants Director at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Most recently, Ruth was Executive Director of Emerge Vermont, which recruits and trains women to run for public office. Ruth served three terms on local school boards and was Chair of the Middlebury Mary Hogan School Board, Co-Chair of the ACSU Unification Charter Committee, and Chair of the ACSD Finance Committee. In addition, Ruth has served on several early childhood education boards, spearheads tree planting initiatives at schools, and is active in local politics. She is a graduate of the Snelling Center’s Vermont Leadership Institute. Ruth lives with her husband, Jason Mittell, a Professor of Film & Media at Middlebury College, and their children – Greta, Anya, and Walter.
Bills and Resolutions Sponsored by Senator Hardy
2021 Special Session
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Roll Call Votes by Senator Hardy
2021 Special Session
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