Brittany MacLean

Democrat

Age: 47

Occupation: Nonprofit management and policy

Family: Widowed mother of four children.

Education: Graduated from the University of Montana with a liberal arts degree; earned a master’s in nonprofit management and urban policy, New York.

Background: Fifth-generation Montanan; Rotary Club member, legislative chairwoman of Flathead Valley Business and Professional Women, executive director Northwest Montana Literacy Center, community coordinator for the Governor’s Council on Children and Family, and co-founded a health center in Juneau, Alaska.