Lisa Blunt Rochester is a Democratic Party candidate running for re-elections to the US House, representing Delaware’s At-Large Congressional District. 

She is a member of the US House and assumed office on January 3, 2017, at the age of 55.  Her current term ends on January 3, 2023.

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Who is Lisa Blunt Rochester? 

Lisa Blunt Rochester was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father Ted Blunt was City Council president and her mother Alice LaTrelle, worked in retail. She moved to Delaware along with her family at the age of 7 in 1969. 

Blunt Rochester attended Padua Academy and initially started her college at Villanova University, Later she moved to Europe, and received her bachelor’s degree in international relations from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her master’s degree in urban affairs and public policy from the University of Delaware.

Blunt Rochester married basketball player Alex Bradley in 1982 and the couple has two children. They later got divorced in 2003. She married Charles Rochester later in 2006 but Charles died in 2014.

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Lisa Blunt Rochester’s political career 

Lisa began her political career as an intern in 1989, where she worked for Tom Carper who served as Delaware’s U.S. Representative. Tom Carper hired Lisa Blunt as a Deputy Secretary in the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services from 1993 to 1998. She also served as Delaware state secretary of labor for five years till 2001. From 2004 to 2007, Lisa worked as a Chief executive of Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League.

Liza 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 on September 13 and the general election against Republican Hans Reigle on November 8. She became the first African-American woman to represent Delaware in Congress.

In 2019, Liza Blunt Rochester voted for impeachment against President Donald Trump and she played an active role in the 2020 presidential election.