Personal Biography
Molly Howard is originally from Alaska and moved to New England in 1984. While pursuing careers as a cook and then in higher education and urban planning, she raised two sons in the Boston area. Her younger son was posted in Poland for five months with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
Frequent excursions to the White Mountains and countless weekends with close friends in Cornish, NH planted the seed for her move to New Hampshire, first to the Upper Valley to work at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and then to Hancock.
To prepare for a role in the NH Legislature, she spoke with many voters in Hillsborough District 31 and closely studied New Hampshire's government and politics.
She writes, gardens and wrangles chickens as caretaker at the home of friends.
A lifelong Democrat, her interest in politics started with discussions at her family's dinner table. Molly believes that in a functioning government, the primary responsibility of elected officials is to ensure the well-being of their constituents through legislation and policy.
State representatives write and vote on state laws and the state budget. Each represents a district in the legislature's lower chamber, which is called the House, the Assembly, or the House of Delegates depending on the state. Most serve two-year terms.