Bucks County mom.
That’s the heart of who Kristin Marcell is, because her children are what drive her every day.
A Council Rock graduate and Bucks County native, she’s our trusted State Representative, a successful communications professional, a former school board member, and has passionately volunteered in our community. But what motivates her most is her children – and ensuring they have every opportunity to succeed and pursue their dreams.
Kristin knows a quality education that prioritizes in-person learning and focuses resources on our children’s classrooms is the best way to provide a great foundation for every child.
Over ten years ago she attended her first school board meeting as a concerned parent fighting to save their local elementary school from closure. She realized during that parent-driven effort there was more she could do to help all our children.
That’s why she ran for the Council Rock School Board in the first place – to advocate for students, ensure parents have a say in their kids’ education, and focus on real priorities to protect homeowners and taxpayers.
Now in Harrisburg as our State Representative, Kristin has continued to put education first, winning record investment in both traditional public education and choice initiatives that provide the greatest opportunity for success for our children.
Kristin knows firsthand that personal attacks and vitriol don’t solve our problems and that “politics as usual” doesn’t bring people together. But focusing on working together and taking action can make all the difference – a small group like the school board or in a body of 203 like the Pennsylvania state house. That's something she's proven in Harrisburg in her first term.
Beyond her service as Representative, Kristin has spent two decades in the private sector as a successful business professional helping provide strategic and communications counsel to businesses in the energy, environmental, and utility industries as well as other corporations.
She’s using that experience to focus state government on the issues that matter to local working families: funding our police to protect our community and prevent big-city crime in our neighborhoods, implementing strong fiscal oversight of tax dollars to protect taxpayers, and promoting job and economic growth policies to make Pennsylvania more competitive for job creators.
Prior to entering the private sector, Kristin served in the public sector after graduating from college. That service included time in the U.S. Department of Transportation where she was the Communications Director of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, managing communication strategies. She also served in the U.S. Congress in various legislative offices where she learned about the legislative process and how to turn good ideas into powerful laws that serve the greater good.
Born in Doylestown Township and today residing in Wrightstown with her husband, Steve, a small business owner, and their two children, Kristin has also lived in Northampton Township, Newtown Township and Newtown Borough. A graduate of our local public schools, she holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University.