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Mindi Messmer
Executive Council 3

Mindi Messmer (D-Rye) is an experienced legislator who brought her scientific expertise and perspective as a small business owner to bear to create and pass policy to clean up the environment, drinking water, and protect public health.

As we face unprecedented public health consequences due to high rates of cancer and chronic disease and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to address these challenges to minimize economic impacts. Mindi’s experience as a scientist identifying and solving problems and then bringing together public and private stakeholders to address these important issues is exactly what is needed on the Executive Council right now.

Deb Pignatelli
Executive Council 5

Deb Pignatelli (D-Nashua) has spent 23 years in elected office - 5 years in the House of Representatives, 10 years in the State Senate, and then 8 years on the Governor's Council. While in the State House and the State Senate, she sponsored and advocated for legislative initiatives increasing funding for education, funding statewide kindergarten, reforming campaign finance laws, enhancing environmental protection, improving the foster care system, bringing a Legal Assistance Office to Nashua, and curbing violent crime, including family violence.

While a State Representative, she served on the Children, Youth and Elderly, and Appropriations Committees. Deb served as Assistant Minority Leader in the House of Representatives and as Democratic Whip and Vice President for Policy in the Senate.

Deb has been designated as one of the ten most powerful women in New Hampshire by New Hampshire Editions Magazine, have received the Meritorious Service Award from the New Hampshire Women's Lobby, the John F. Kennedy Award from the Hillsborough County Democratic Committee, the Anita and Norman Freedman Award and the Eleanor Roosevelt Award given by the New Hampshire Democratic Party.

In 2005, she received the William E. Paine, II award for her work preventing domestic and family violence. Deb also received an Award recognizing her excellence in river and watershed conservation from local groups representing dozens of New Hampshire Communities along the Contoocook and North Branch, Lamprey, Lower and Upper Merrimack, and Swift Rivers.

Before running for office, Deb served as the Executive Director of the Nashua Girl's Club, now Girl's, Inc., and the Director of Tenant Services for the Nashua Housing Authority.

Sue Ford
State senate, district 1

Sue Ford (D-Easton) has faithfully served the people of New Hampshire for four terms as the State House Representative for District 3. Now, she is running for election to the New Hampshire State Senate to represent District 1. Sue is a retired teacher and school administrator with a proven history of standing up for her constituents.

She is an advocate for creating sufficient funding for rural communities and expanding educational opportunities for those in the region. While serving in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Sue co-sponsored legislation to expand the definition of gender discrimination in New Hampshire and maintained a record of fighting for women's access to health care. 

Sue is running for State Senate to use her experience as an educator and a legislature to continue serving the people of the Granite State.

Jenn Alford-Teaster
State senate, district 8

A New Hampshire native, Jenn Alford-Teaster (D-Bradford) was raised by her grandmother and mother in a small Seacoast apartment. Her family struggled to make ends meet and had to take assistance from the community in order to survive. At 18, Jenn moved to North Carolina where she worked a minimum wage job and earned her Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees before moving back to New Hampshire.

Jenn and her husband Jason now live in Sutton with their daughter, Birdie. Jenn is a Senior Research Scientist at the Geisel School of Medicine, focusing on healthcare access for rural communities and telemedicine expansion in the era of COVID-19. Jenn is running for State Senate in District 8 to fight for Granite State families and ensure that everyone has the opportunities they need to move from surviving to thriving. 

SEN. JEANNE DIETSCH, DISTRICT 9

Jeanne Dietsch (D-Peterborough) has decades of experience as an economic innovator, job creator, and tech pioneer in Southern New Hampshire. She has taken the care and foresight that made her successful in private industry to Concord as a champion for her district in the New Hampshire Senate.

In just one term, she has fought to remove obstacles from universal broadband in rural communities, retain local and individual control of school curricula, and ease the burden of property taxes on New Hampshire families. Whether on the school board or economic development authority, or in state senate, Jeanne Dietsch always represents her entire constituency, smart and with heart.

Shannon Chandley
State senate, district 11

Senator Shannon Chandley (D-Amherst) is serving her first term as Senator for District 11 which includes the towns of Amherst, Merrimack, Milford and Wilton, after previously serving 3 terms as a State Representative. She is currently the Vice Chair of the Judiciary Committee and is a member of the Health and Human Services and Executive Departments and Administration Committees. Her focus as a legislator this term has been on independent redistricting, property tax relief, and PFAS remediation, water protection, and the health and safety of those exposed to toxins.

Most recently, Senator Chandley has been working to help individuals and businesses weather the impacts of COVID-19 in New Hampshire.

Melanie Levesque
State senate, district 12

Senator Melanie Levesque (D-Brookline) is serving her first term as a NH State Senator for District 12 which includes Greenville, Mason, Rindge, Brookline, New Ipswich, Hollis and Wards 1, 2 and 5 in Nashua. She served for three terms as a State Representative for Brookline, Hollis, and Mason. 

As the Chairwoman of the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee she advocates for modernizing our election processes and election security. Senator Levesque is also a member of the Senate Transportation and Senate Judiciary committees in addition to chairing the Bail Reform Commission. 

In her community she served as a member of the Hollis-Brookline Coop School Board, Is a member of the New Hampshire Endowment for Health Advisory Committee, Trustee for the Town of Brookline and Trustee for the Brookline Community Church. Senator Levesque has the distinction of being the first African American Senator in NH history and considers being a Senator one of the great honors of her life. 

Residing in Brookline, NH with her husband Scott and daughter Logan her favorite pastimes are volunteering and singing. 

Cindy Rosenwald
State senate, district 13

Senator Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua) is currently serving her first term representing Senate District 13, which includes six out of Nashua's nine wards. Before getting elected to the NH Senate, she served as a State Representative for 14 years.

Throughout her career in public service, Cindy continues to advocate for affordable health care and policies to help working families. She lives with her husband, Peter, and they have two adult children.

Donna Soucy
State senate, district 18

Senator Donna Soucy (D-Manchester) has served in the New Hampshire Senate since 2012 and currently serves as Senate President.

Her long record of public service includes three terms as a State Representative, two terms as a Manchester Alderman, nearly four terms on the Manchester School Board, and serving as the first female chair of the Manchester Fire Commission. 

Donna is focused on ensuring working families have an opportunity to get ahead- this includes supporting public schools, increasing access to affordable health care, and fixing our broken economy.

A Manchester native, Donna is a graduate of Trinity High School, earned her Bachelor of Arts from Saint Anselm College and her Juris Doctor from the then-Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, now part of the UNH System.