3 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
Full Name:
Rachel Talbot Ross
Gender:
Female
Family:
1 Child
Home City:
Portland, ME
No education information on file.
Senator, Maine State Senate, District 28, 2024-present
Representative, Maine State House of Representatives, District 118, 2022-2024
Speaker, Maine State House of Representatives, 2022-2024
Candidate, Maine State Senate, District 28, 2024
Assistant Majority Leader, Maine State House of Representatives, 2020-2022
Candidate, Maine State House of Representatives, District 118, 2022
Representative, Maine State House of Representatives, District 40, 2016-2022
Former Member, Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Maine State House of Representatives
Former Member, Engrossed Bills Committee, Maine State House of Representatives
Chair, Joint Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Maine State Legislature
Former Member, Joint Committee on Health and Human Services, Maine State House of Representatives
Former Member, Joint Committee on Judiciary, Maine State House of Representatives
Founder, Maine Black Community Development, Incorporated
Co-Chair, African American Collection Advisory Committee of Maine, present
Member, Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, present
Member, Maine Prison Advocacy Coalition, present
Board Member, University of Southern Maine Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, present
Former Member, Intergovernmental Pretrial Justice Reform Task Force, Maine State Legislature
Co-Founder/President, Maine Freedom Trails
Former Chair, Maine State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Co-Founder/Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Fellows
President, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Portland Branch
Board Member, Seven Eagles Media
Awards:
Woman of the Year, Emerge Maine, 2020; Gerda Haas Award for Excellence in Holocaust and Human Rights Education and Leadership, 2020; Deborah Morton Award, University of New England, 2014; Roger Baldwin Award, American Civil Liberties Union of Main, 2008; Bayard Rustin Award, Equality Maine, 2006; Rising Tide Award, Maine's People Alliance