BOSTON — State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) has become the first Connecticut legislator elected vice president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Sen. Duff will serve one year as vice president for the bipartisan organization serving the nation’s 7,386 state lawmakers and more than 30,000 legislative staff. His stint will be followed by a year as president-elect, and will become NCSL’s president at the 2027 Legislative Summit in Atlanta.
NCSL’s presidency alternates between parties every year. Illinois Rep. Marcus C. Evans Jr. (D) is NCSL’s newly elected president, and Montana Senator Barry Usher (R) is the president-elect.
“In its 50 years of advancing the work of state legislators, NCSL has uniquely fostered a collaborative attitude that puts bipartisanship into action and has created lasting partnerships among the states,” Duff said. “Stepping into the vice president position, I will channel NCSL’s emphasis on solving problems together and tackling issues that touch each of our states.”
Duff served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2002-2005 and was elected to the Connecticut Senate in 2004. He has been the Senate majority leader since 2015. He is an active member of NCSL, serving as co-chair of NCSL Standing Committees, an at-large member of the Foundation of State Legislatures Board and a member of the Executive Committee.
Since assuming the majority leader position, Duff has overseen passage of a rewrite of Connecticut’s education funding formula, the largest tax cuts in state history and paid family medical leave. As the former chair of both the Housing Committee and Banking Committee, he created the state’s first Housing Trust Fund to build more affordable homes and worked on several reforms to reduce foreclosures.
Sen. Duff earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Lynchburg College in Virginia and has been a real estate professional with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty for more than three decades.
