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.