Leigh Davis is a Democratic State Representative for the 3rd Berkshire District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the first woman elected to this seat. She won the Democratic primary in September 2024 with 55.6% of the vote and the general election in November 2024 with 57.4% against Marybeth Mitts. The district, the largest geographically in the House, includes the towns of Alford, Becket, Dalton, Egremont, Great Barrington, Lee, Lenox, Monterey, Mount Washington, New Marlborough, Otis, Richmond, Sandisfield, Sheffield, Stockbridge, Tyringham, Washington, and West Stockbridge in southern Berkshire County. A tireless advocate for working families, small businesses, underserved communities, affordable housing, education, healthcare, environmental sustainability, arts, culture, veterans, and farmers, she has filed legislation to improve EMS systems, strengthen age-of-consent protections, update "upskirting" laws, expand rural microtransit, accelerate bridge repairs, support school regionalization, and establish farm-to-institution programs. Notable achievements include being named a “Lawmaker to Watch” by MassLive and featured in The Boston Globe as one of five new lawmakers to watch in 2025.

Education and Political Experience

Leigh Davis moved to Great Barrington in 2009 after a career as a film studio and television editor in Los Angeles. She served as a tenured lecturer and chair of the Department of Film and Television at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Ireland. Her professional roles include marketing director for the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, where she expanded educational programs; development director for Eagle Mill, securing millions in funding for its $80 million revitalization into mixed-use space with affordable housing and jobs; and communications director for Construct, the Berkshires’ largest affordable housing nonprofit, leading the BUILD campaign and workforce housing projects like the Windflower Inn with microtransit. She has advised the Berkshire Busk! festival, served on the Saint James Place board, and led on 1Berkshire Board, Berkshire Blueprint 2.0 Advisory Council, and Berkshire Leadership Impact Council. Public service began in 2013 on the Great Barrington Finance Committee; she was elected to the Selectboard in 2019, serving two terms as vice chair, chairing the Housing Subcommittee, and vice chairing the Economic Development Committee.