REP. CLAIRE SNYDER-HALL is proud to be the FIRST WOMAN elected to represent the people of RD 14 — Rehoboth Beach, Dewey, and the southern part of Lewes — in the DELAWARE STATE HOUSE. She plans to use the extensive network of relationships she has developed through her political work in Delaware to protect our freedoms and help improve the quality of life in the First State.
Before moving to Delaware, Claire spent 20 years in the classroom and is proudly endorsed by the Delaware State Education Association (DSEA), as well as the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), among others.
Claire decided to run for office because she wants to do the work – serving constituents, advocating for our community, and making laws for the state. She will fight to protect reproductive freedom; work for democracy reforms like vote-by-mail, campaign finance reform, and a non-partisan Office of the Inspector General; and advance doable bills aimed at improving Delaware’s quality of life in terms of health, education, and the environment, which is threatened by unchecked development.
Claire has a proven track record of success in Dover. For five years, she led the Delaware office of Common Cause, a non-partisan organization that works to safeguard the freedom to vote, fights to strengthen campaign finance laws, opposes cronyism and corruption, and advocates for ethical and transparent government. Through her work with Common Cause Delaware, Claire built coalitions with ally organizations and lobbied state legislators to support or block various bills, and through that work she has developed good, strong working relationships with lawmakers and the leaders of governmental and non-governmental organizations all over the state.
Prior to joining the CCDE team in 2015, Claire ran for the Delaware State Senate in 2014 against an anti-choice incumbent; co-led the weekly phone banks at CAMP Rehoboth during the marriage equality campaign; organized canvassing efforts to protect manufactured homeowners from arbitrary rent increases; and did prison ministry in Sussex Correctional while on the board of The Way Home, a reentry organization in Sussex County, among other things.
Before moving to Rehoboth full-time in 2011, Claire served on the faculty of George Mason University, where she taught political science and also administered a range of academic programs. Her twenty years of classroom teaching experience also include courses taught at Princeton University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Illinois State University, & New College of Florida (before Gov. DeSantis destroyed it).
Claire holds a PhD in political science from Rutgers University, with a major in political philosophy and minors in political economy and women & politics, and a BA cum laude in psychology from Smith College. She resides in the Villages of Old Landing in Rehoboth with her wife Mikki Snyder-Hall and their four cats.