Shenna Bellows

Shenna Bellows
Bellows in 2014
50th Secretary of State of Maine
Incumbent
Assumed office January 4, 2021
Governor	Janet Mills
Preceded by	Matthew Dunlap
Member of the Maine Senate from the 14th district
In office December 7, 2016 – December 2, 2020
Preceded by	Earle McCormick
Succeeded by	Craig Hickman
Personal details
Born	Shenna Lee Bellows (1975-03-23) March 23, 1975 (age 49) Greenfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Brandon Baldwin ​ (m. 2012)​
Education	Middlebury College (BA)

Shenna Lee Bellows (born March 23, 1975) is an American politician and a non-profit executive director. On December 2, 2020, the Maine Legislature elected her to serve as the 50th Maine secretary of state.^[1] She was executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine between 2018 and 2020, and she served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine between 2005 and 2013.^[2]

Bellows was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Maine in the 2014 election, and was defeated by incumbent Republican Susan Collins. In 2016 she won election to the Maine Senate, and she served until resigning in 2020 when she became a candidate in the legislative election for secretary of state.

On December 28, 2023, Bellows ruled that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be barred from the Maine primary ballot due to his conduct during the January 6 United States Capitol attack, pending an appeal. In the aftermath of that decision, she was doxxed and swatted, along with several other leading American activists and politicians, during the period of similar incidents nationwide.^[3]