Matt Blumenthal

Matt Blumenthal is State Representative for the 147th District, serving Stamford.

Chair of the Government Administration and Elections Committee, Matt also serves on the Judiciary (Vice Chair 2019–2022) and Transportation committees. He is co-founder and co-chair of the General Assembly’s Reproductive Rights Caucus.

In these roles, Matt has been a leader fighting for gun-violence prevention, increasing fairness and transparency in our justice system, strengthening our democracy, women’s and worker’s rights, and making Connecticut a place where all can thrive.

In 2023, Matt co-authored and led passage of Connecticut's first legislation allowing Early Voting. He has also led passage of the constitutional amendment to allow Absentee Voting for All, the Connecticut John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, legislation protecting election workers from harassment, and the first law significantly strengthening the state's Freedom of Information laws in roughly 40 years.

In 2022, Matt authored and led passage of the Connecticut Reproductive Freedom Defense Act, the nation's first shield law for reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare. 16 states and the District of Columbia have since enacted legislation based on its provisions. He also authored and led passage of the state's ban on ghost guns and 3D-printed guns, helped author its updated red-flag law, and was a leader on laws ensuring safe safe storage of firearms.

Matt has also been a fierce voice fighting on behalf of ratepayers to increase accountability and transparency for public utilities, and supported the sustainable, responsible budgeting that has led to a full rainy-day fund and multiple credit-rating increases. He co-authored and helped lead passage of a law that increased oversight over ratepayer-reimbursed utility construction projects. He also helped secure hundreds of millions of state dollars to rebuild Stamford's schools.

Matt received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School and his bachelor's degree with high honors from Harvard University. After graduating law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for Hon. Diane P. Wood, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Before law school, Matt was an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, commanding a rifle platoon in Charlie Company, First Battalion, Twenty-Fifth Marines. He served roughly two and a half years on active duty and deployed to Marjah, Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Matt is an attorney at the law firm of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C. He specializes in representing those who have been injured by negligence, misconduct, and deprivations of their civil rights. He previously served as a supervisor at the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, which fought the Trump Administration’s excesses against the most vulnerable Americans, the environment, and the rule of law.

A Stamford native, Matt is a homeowner in the city’s Glenbrook neighborhood. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of Stamford and is a member of the Springdale post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.