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Senator. Mayor. Teacher. Mom.
Anne brings leadership, listening, and compassion to her work in the Vermont State Senate.
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As a City Councilor in Montpelier, Anne helped the City get a 1 MegaWatt solar array that saved the City $50,000/yr on electricity.
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Anne's Story
Anne has served one term as a Vermont State Senator, representing the Washington District. Prior to that she was the Mayor of Montpelier, Vermont. Including her time serving as a Montpelier City Councilor, she spent nearly ten years as a locally elected official. She was born in Burlington and grew up in Essex, attending Essex High School. She received a B.S. in physics from Penn State, with a minor in mathematics. She then completed a Masters in Education at UVM and began teaching science and math at Montpelier High School starting in 2004. A highly acclaimed teacher, Anne is a Knowles Teaching Initiative Senior Fellow and a 2015 Rowland Fellow. She coached the Montpelier High School boys varsity ultimate frisbee team from 2010 to 2021, and won three state championships. She successfully advocated that ultimate frisbee be included as an official varsity sport, making Vermont the first state in the country to do so.
As Mayor, Anne passed fiscally responsible budgets, responding both to the COVID pandemic with the lowest budgetary increase in the prior decade, and leaving Montpelier in a fiscally healthy place, meeting the City's fund balance policy. Anne championed environmental issues, creating a first-in-the-state energy information disclosure at the time a home is listed for sale, shepherding renewable energy infrastructure projects including a one mega-watt solar array, and carbon-emission-reducing upgrades to the City's wastewater treatment facility. Responding to the needs of renters, Anne worked to change Montpelier's total winter parking ban, changing it to an alternate-side parking ban, so that renters would not have pressure to move their cars far away every night in the winter.
As a Senator, Anne served as the Vice Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee, and she served on the Government Operations Committee. She was a co-lead sponsor on the Climate Superfund bill, which would require large oil companies to pay for climate damage caused by their products. She was a leader in passing H.626, which updates how Vermont deals with Animal Cruelty. You can check out bills and resolutions she introduced or signed onto here.
As Mayor, Anne passed fiscally responsible budgets, responding both to the COVID pandemic with the lowest budgetary increase in the prior decade, and leaving Montpelier in a fiscally healthy place, meeting the City's fund balance policy. Anne championed environmental issues, creating a first-in-the-state energy information disclosure at the time a home is listed for sale, shepherding renewable energy infrastructure projects including a one mega-watt solar array, and carbon-emission-reducing upgrades to the City's wastewater treatment facility. Responding to the needs of renters, Anne worked to change Montpelier's total winter parking ban, changing it to an alternate-side parking ban, so that renters would not have pressure to move their cars far away every night in the winter.
As a Senator, Anne served as the Vice Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee, and she served on the Government Operations Committee. She was a co-lead sponsor on the Climate Superfund bill, which would require large oil companies to pay for climate damage caused by their products. She was a leader in passing H.626, which updates how Vermont deals with Animal Cruelty. You can check out bills and resolutions she introduced or signed onto here.
Listening Tour of the Washington District
Red Hen Baking, Middlesex, Saturday 5/25 at 8:30am
Stowe Street Cafe, Waterbury, Saturday 6/8 at 8:30am
Espresso Bueno, Barre, Saturday 8/3 at 8:30am
Stowe Street Cafe, Waterbury, Saturday 6/8 at 8:30am
Espresso Bueno, Barre, Saturday 8/3 at 8:30am
Paid For By Anne Watson For Vermont Senate, 36 Patterson Street, Barre City, VT