Katherine Sims is an American politician who has served in the

Vermont House of Representatives The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The House comprises 150 members, with each member representing around 4,100 citizens. Representatives a ...

since 2021.

Early life and career

Katherine Sims was born in Massachusetts and graduated from

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with a bachelor's in history. She is married to Jeff Fellinger and has two kids. In 2007, she founded the nonprofit Green Mountain Farm-to-School, which advocated for local farms and childhood nutrition. In 2017 she was hired as Director of the Northeast Kingdom Collaborative.

Vermont House of Representatives

In 2020, Katherine Sims ran for one of the two House seats for the ORL-CAL legislative district after Samuel Young announced his leave. In 2022, with the redistricting, ORL-CAL went from a seven town, multimember district, to the Orleans-4 district with four towns, and two incumbents running for one seat. Sims won with 61% of the votes.

Vermont Senate

On April 29, 2024, Sims announced her candidacy for Vermont Senate, following the news of retirement from Robert A. Starr.

References

Living people Yale College alumni 21st-century American women politicians Democratic Party members of the Vermont House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Vermont General Assembly Women state legislators in Vermont Year of birth missing (living people) People from Craftsbury, Vermont Politicians from Boston {{Vermont-politician-stub