Representative Diane Russell

Diane was born and raised in Western Maine. She is a founding Board Member of Opportunity Maine Campaign, a non-profit organization that used the citizen's initiative process to get legislation passed designed to make college more affordable for all Maine residents. She has served on the citizen board of Common Cause Maine where she and her colleagues  negotiated a pilot project on ranked choice voting that should take place in 2009. She was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 2008.