Английская Википедия:Christopher A. Bray

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Christopher A. Bray (born June 29, 1955) is a Vermont businessman and politician. A Democrat, he served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. Since 2013, he has represented the Addison District in the Vermont Senate.

Early life

Christopher Austin BrayШаблон:Sfn was born in New Britain, ConnecticutШаблон:Sfn on June 29, 1955,Шаблон:Sfn a son of Dr. George H. Bray and Gertrude (Austin) Bray.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He attended the University of Vermont (UVM), from which he graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology.Шаблон:Sfn He received a Master of Arts degree in English from UVM in 1991.Шаблон:Sfn He later attended Lincoln College, Oxford[1] and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College.Шаблон:Sfn He is enrolled in the Master of Energy and Regulatory Law program at Vermont Law School.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Bray was employed as a product development specialist at corporations including National Life of Vermont, IBM, Intel, and Apple Inc. before founding his own business.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In addition, he taught English at UVM for four years.Шаблон:Sfn He is the owner of Common Ground Communications, which provides writing, editing and document production services to the book publishing industry and makers of technical products.Шаблон:Sfn Among the projects on which Bray worked was editing and publishing the autobiography of former governor Jim Douglas, 2014's The Vermont Way.Шаблон:Sfn

Bray's civic and local government experience includes the board of directors of the United Way of Addison County, Middlebury Rotary Club, secretary of the Vermont Milk Commission, chairman of the Vermont Rural Economic Development Working Group, Vermont Forestry Study Group, National Conference of State Legislatures Agriculture & Energy Committee, New Haven justice of the peace, and president of the Middlebury Area Land Trust.Шаблон:Sfn

Vermont House of Representatives

In 2006, Bray graduated from the Snelling Center's Vermont Leadership Institute.Шаблон:Sfn A Democrat, he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives from the Addison 5 district in 2006 and reelected in 2008.Шаблон:Sfn He served from January 2007 to January 2011 and was a member of the Agriculture Committee.Шаблон:Sfn He was a lead sponsor of Vermont's Farm to Plate Program and the Biomass Energy Development Working Group, of which he was co-chairman until 2011.Шаблон:Sfn

Bray was elected to the University of Vermont board of trustees in 2009 and served until 2015.Шаблон:Sfn In 2009, he received the Vermont Natural Resource Council's Legislative Leadership Award.Шаблон:Sfn In 2010, received the Council of State Governments Henry Wolcott Toll Fellowship.Шаблон:Sfn In 2012, he was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court's Professional Responsibility Program.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2010, Bray was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.Шаблон:Sfn He lost the August primary to fellow Representative Steve Howard, who lost the general election to the Republican nominee, Phil Scott.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Vermont Senate

In 2012, incumbent Democrat Harold W. Giard did not run for reelection to the Vermont Senate from the two-member at-large Addison County District.Шаблон:Sfn Bray was a candidate for one of the two Democratic nominations, as was incumbent Claire D. Ayer, and they were nominated without opposition.Шаблон:Sfn There were no Republican candidates in the November general election, and Bray and Ayer defeated independent Robert Wagner.Шаблон:Sfn Bray's Senate term started in January 2013.Шаблон:Sfn As of 2023, his committee assignments included the Senate Committee on Finance and the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, which he has chaired since 2015.Шаблон:Sfn He also served as chairman of the legislature's Joint Energy Committee, the Committee on Administrative Rules, the Legislative Study Committee on Wetlands, the Single-Use Products Working Group, and the Joint Carbon Emissions Reduction Committee.Шаблон:Sfn

Bray's notable legislative work includes the Farm to Plate Program[2] (2009); the Strategic Workforce Development Act[3] (Act 81, 2013); the Vermont Clean Water Act[4] (Act 64, 2015); the Vermont Renewable Energy Standard[5] (Act 56, 2015); the Energy Siting Act[6] (Act 176, 2016); the Single-Use Products [Plastic Bag Ban, etc] Act[7] (Act 69, 2019); the Regulation of PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water[8] (Act 21, 2019); the Regulation of Toxics and Hazardous Materials[9] (Act 75, 2019); the Energy Efficiency Modernization Act[10] (Act 151, 2020); the Weatherization for All Program[11] (S.284, 2022); and the Affordable Heat Act[12] (S.5, 2023).

Bray's previous Senate committee assignments included Education, Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, Finance, the Joint Committee on Judicial Rules, and chairman of Natural Resources and Energy and the Legislative Information Technology Committee.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Family

In 1981, Bray married Susan Beth Raber.Шаблон:Sfn They are the parents of two children, Benjamin and Kaitlin, and divorced in 2001.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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