Terie Norelli

On December 19, 2016, Norelli served as one of four members of New Hampshire Electoral College delegation, the first all-female such delegation. The vote was unanimous in support of Sec. Clinton. In advance of the vote, Norelli was one of over 50 electors who petitioned national intelligence director James Clapper to authorize a briefing ahead of the Electoral College's meeting on Dec. 19 to elect the next president. The briefing never took place.

In February 2015, Norelli was named the President and CEO of the New Hampshire Women's Foundation. In this role, she is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of the Women's Foundation, a nonprofit, 501c3 organization, whose mission is to promote opportunity and equality for women and girls in NH through research, education, philanthropy, and advocacy.

In 2015, Norelli was appointed Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth. Named for longtime New Hampshire U.S. Congressman Perkins Bass, Dartmouth Class of 1934, the distinguished visitors program invites a New Hampshire citizen who has made outstanding contributions in government to share experiences with the Dartmouth community.

In addition to her service in the New Hampshire House, Speaker Norelli was elected 40th president of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) at the organization's 2011 annual Legislative Summit in San Antonio, Texas. Representative Norelli served as president-elect for a year until being installed as president at NCSL's 2012 Legislative Summit in Chicago, Ill. The organization, which rotates leadership positions annually between Democratic and Republican members, serves all the nation's 7,382 state lawmakers as well as all state legislative staff. Norelli was also president of NCSL Foundation from 2013-2014, the organization's foundation.

Representative Norelli was active in NCSL for several years prior to her election as president. In addition to having been elected as the organization's vice president in December, 2010, Norelli was co-chair of the Deficit Reduction Task Force and the International Relations Task Force. She has also served as chair of the Standing Committees and co-chair of the working group on NCSL policy and procedure.

She was a central part of the controversy regarding the signing of a pro-Hillary Clinton letter, containing information about Barrack Obama's voting record while he was in the Illinois legislature when he avoided voting on several pro-feminist bills, which went out to voters two days before the New Hampshire primary, 2008.

Norelli was an active board member of the State Legislative Leaders Foundation from 2007-2014. The SLLF is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the professional development of all Senate Presidents, Speakers of the House, Majority Leaders, Minority Leaders, and Pro Tempore. All SLLF programs focus on two categories: strengthening leadership skills and examining critical public policy issues.

Terie Norelli is a Democratic former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, serving the Rockingham 16th District and later 26th District from 1996 through 2014. She served as Speaker of the House for six years, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2014. When Republicans regained control of the New Hampshire House in 2010, she became the Democratic minority leader. Norelli was the first Democratic speaker of the New Hampshire House in 84 years. When the Democrats regained control of the New Hampshire House in 2012, she was elected to the role of speaker again.