Blunt Rochester, Lisa, 1962-

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Blunt Rochester, Lisa, 1962-

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Blunt, Lisa LaTrelle, 1962-

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Lisa LaTrelle Blunt Rochester (née Blunt; February 10, 1962) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district since 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Philadelphia, Blunt Rochester's family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in 1969. She attended Padua Academy in Wilmington, began college at Villanova University, transferring to the University of Delaware in her sophomore year and gradsuating from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1985. Blunt Rochester would later earn an MA from the University of Delaware. Blunt Rochester worked for Tom Carper as an intern in 1989, when he served as Delaware's U.S. Representative. After the internship, she continued to work for Carper as a constituent relations caseworker, and worked on his transition team when he was elected governor of Delaware. Carper appointed her deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services in 1993 and Secretary of the Department of Labor in 1998. Governor Ruth Ann Minner named Blunt Rochester the state personnel director in 2001. She left government service and became the CEO of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League in 2004.

Blunt Rochester ran for the United States House of Representatives in Delaware's at-large congressional district in the 2016 election. She won the Democratic Party nomination in September and the general election in November. Sworn into office on January 3, 2017, she became the first woman and the first African-American to represent Delaware in Congress. Blunt Rochester has been re-elected twice, in 2018 and 2020.

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