Kelly ayotte siblings
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AYOTTE, Kelly
After a 16-year legal career in which she rose to become attorney general for the state of New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte won election to the United States Senate as only the second female Senator in her state’s history. On Capitol Hill, Ayotte quickly made a name for herself in national security policy. As the ranking Republican and then head of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, she fought automatic cuts to military spending that were part of the federal government’s 2011 budget sequestration. “I’m still for making these reductions,” Ayotte said in 2012, “just not through sacrificing our national defense.”1
Kelly Ayotte was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, on June 27, 1968, to Mark and Kathy Veracco Ayotte. She has a stepbrother and two half-brothers. Ayotte graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1990 with a degree in political science. In college, she was a competitive skier. Ayotte attended Villanova University Law School, where she served as editor of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal and earne
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Kelly Ayotte
Governor of New Hampshire since 2025
Kelly Ann Ayotte (AY-ott;[2] born June 27, 1968) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2025 as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2011 to 2017 as a United States senator from New Hampshire and from 2004 to 2009 as Attorney General of New Hampshire.
Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Ayotte is a graduate of Nashua High School, Pennsylvania State University, and Villanova University School of Law. She worked as a law clerk at the New Hampshire Supreme Court before entering private practice. She served as a prosecutor for the New Hampshire Department of Justice and briefly as the legal counsel to New Hampshire GovernorCraig Benson before returning to the Department of Justice to serve as deputy attorney general of New Hampshire. In 2004, Benson appointed Ayotte as attorney general of New Hampshire after Peter Heed resigned. She became the first and only woman to serve as New Hampshire's attorney general. She was twice reappointed by Governor John Lynch.
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Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte assumed office as governor of New Hampshire on January 9, 2025. Ayotte served as New Hampshire's United States senator from 2011 to 2017.
Ayotte was born June 27, 1968, in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 1993, she graduated from Villanova University School of Law with a Juris Doctor.
From 1993-1994, Ayotte served as a law clerk in the New Hampshire supreme court, then worked in private practice until 1998 when she became a prosecutor in the New Hampshire attorney general’s office, later becoming head of the homicide division. In 2003, she was named state deputy attorney general and in 2004 she became first female attorney general in New Hampshire.
Ayotte resigned as attorney general to run for the U.S. Senate in 2011, winning that election. She ran for re-election in 2016, losing to Governor Maggie Hassan in a very tight race. After leaving office, Ayotte became a visiting fellow at Harvard University. On July 24, 2023, she announced her candidacy for
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