Biography
Barbara B. Kennelly represented Connecticut's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives from 1982 to 1999. Kennelly was the first woman to serve on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the first woman to be appointed as chief deputy majority whip.
Kennelly was born July 10, 1936, in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., in 1958. In 1959, she received a certificate in business administration from Harvard Business School; and, in 1971, she completed her Master of Arts in government from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Kennelly served on the Hartford Court of Common Council from 1975 to 1979, and as the secretary of state of Connecticut from 1979 to 1982. Following her time in Congress, Kennelly was appointed as the associate commissioner and counselor of the Social Security Administration, overseeing the office of retirement policy. She was also named the CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
For more information on Kennelly's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation during her time in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on https://www.congress.gov.
Sources: United States House of Representatives (n.d.). KENNELLY, Barbara Bailey. Retrieved on November 21 2022, from https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/16225