Esme Cole


Esme Cole is an American politician. She serves as a Democratic member and Vermont Progressive Party member for the Windsor-6 district of the Vermont House of Representatives.

Life and career

Cole attended Hartford High School, Kenyon College, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and the University of Vermont Graduate School.
In August 2022, Cole and incumbent Kevin Christie defeated Nicholas Bramlage in the Democratic primary election for the Windsor-6 district of the Vermont House of Representatives. In November 2022, she was elected along with Christie in the general election. She assumed office in 2023.
In 2024, Cole was selected for the Future Caucus Innovation Fellowship as part of the Criminal Justice cohort, a bipartisan coalition of Gen Z and millennial lawmakers interested in creating policies to improve the criminal justice system.