Katherine Sims | |
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| Member of the Vermont House of Representatives from the Orleans-4 district | |
| In office 2021–2025 | |
| Succeeded by | Leanne Harple |
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| Born | |
| Party | Democratic |
| Children | 2 [1] |
| Education | Yale University (BA) [2] |
Katherine Sims is an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 2021 to 2025. [3]
Katherine Sims was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University 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. [4] In 2017 she was hired as Director of the Northeast Kingdom Collaborative. [5]
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. [6]
On April 29,2024,Sims announced her candidacy for Vermont Senate,following the news of retirement from Robert A. Starr. [7] She was defeated in the general election by Republican Samuel Douglass. [8]