Rachel Talbot Ross | |
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| 104th Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives | |
| In office December 7, 2022 – December 4, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Ryan Fecteau |
| Succeeded by | Ryan Fecteau |
| Member of the Maine Senate | |
| Assumed office December 4, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Ben Chipman |
| Constituency | 28th District |
| Member of the Maine House of Representatives | |
| In office December 7, 2022 – December 4, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Chad Wayne Grignon |
| Succeeded by | Yusuf M. Yusuf |
| Constituency | 118th district |
| In office December 7, 2016 – December 7, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Ben Chipman |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Zeigler |
| Constituency | 40th district |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1961 (age 63–64) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Relatives | Gerald Talbot (father) |
| Education | American University Wesleyan University |
Rachel Talbot Ross is an American politician and activist. A Democrat from Portland, Talbot is the incumbent State Senator for Senate District 28. Previously, Talbot was the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives from 2022 to 2024. When she was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 2016, Talbot Ross became the first Black woman to serve in the Maine Legislature. Talbot Ross represented District 40 from 2016 to 2020, and District 118 from 2022 to 2024, consisting of the Parkside, Bayside, East Bayside, and Oakdale neighborhoods of Portland as well as the University of Southern Maine campus. She became Maine's first African-American House Speaker, and the highest-ranking African-American politician in Maine history, when she was elected speaker on December 7, 2022.[1]
- ^ Writer, Penelope OvertonStaff (2022-12-07). "Rachel Talbot Ross becomes first Black speaker of Maine House". Press Herald. Retrieved 2022-12-08.