Lisa Blunt Rochester

Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester has served Delaware in the U.S. Senate since 2025 (119th Congress-Present). Before joining the Senate, Rochester represented Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2025 (115th-118th Congresses). In the Senate, Blunt Rochester serves on the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the Committee on Environment and Public Works; and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. While in the House, Blunt Rochester sat on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where she was the only former statewide health official serving on the committee. She also served on the House Committee on Agriculture. In that role, she helped craft the 2018 Farm Bill, a five-year reauthorization that extended U.S. Department of Agriculture programs related to the farm safety net; nutrition programs that feed children, seniors, people with disabilities, and families who rely on the social support programs; land-grant and 1890 universities; and agriculture research. Before her congressional tenure, Rochester served in the cabinets of two Delaware governors, as CEO of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League, and as senior executive leadership and systems manager for the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rochester is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University with a degree in International Relations and earned a master’s degree in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware.