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In 2013 Snelling considered a candidacy for Senate President, but ultimately decided against running.

Diane Snelling was first appointed to the Vermont State Senate in January 2002 by Governor Howard Dean to serve the remainder of her mother, Barbara Snelling's, term in office, after her mother retired from the Senate. She won election to her seat in 2002 and was re-elected in 2004, 2006, 2008 2010, 2012, and 2014. She resigned in 2016 to become head of the Vermont Natural Resources Board.

Senator Snelling moved to the town of Hinesburg, Vermont in 1983 and continues to reside there. She works as an artist.

Snelling's father, Richard Snelling, served as Governor of Vermont from 1977 to 1985 and was elected again in 1990, serving until his death in 1991. After her father's death, Snelling's mother, Barbara Snelling, went on to serve as Vermont's Lieutenant Governor, and then as a State Senator. In 2002, after her mother resigned, Snelling was appointed to serve out the remainder of her mother's term by former Governor Howard Dean. She has served until 2016, and was the only Republican in the six-member Chittenden County State Senate delegation during her tenure.

Diane B. Snelling (born March 18, 1952) is an American politician from Vermont who served as a Republican member of the Vermont Senate, representing Chittenden County.

Diane Snelling was born in Philadelphia on March 18, 1952. She received an A.B./V.E.S. (Visual and Environmental Studies) degree from Harvard/Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1974 and a M.A. in art from New York University in 1994.