Gale D. Candaras
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Gale D. Candaras, (Democrat, 12th Hampden District) Born 1949. Massachusetts attorney and State Representative.
Gale Candaras is a Massachusetts State Representative, representing approximately 40,000 constituents in the Twelfth Hampden District, which consists of the town of Wilbraham, a portion of the city of Springfield and a portion of the town of East Longmeadow. Candaras was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. She attended Teaneck High School, Fairleigh Dickinson University and, in 1983, she graduated from Western New England College School of Law with a Juris Doctor. After law school, Rep. Candaras worked for the Equity Trading and Arbitrage Division at Goldman Sachs on Wall Street in New York City. She is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. In 1987, she moved to Wilbraham, where she held positions on the town planning board and finance committee and served for six years on the Board of Selectmen before being elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1996.
Rep. Candaras’ first committee appointments in the legislature were to the Committee on Government Regulations, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Personnel. Eventually, she served on all three simultaneously. During her tenure, Candaras has served as Vice Chair of the Committee on Public Service and was later appointed as Chair of the House Committee on Ethics. In January 2003 she was promoted to a leadership position in the House of Representatives, when she received the post of Third Division Floor Leader. In January 2005, Candaras was appointed First Division Chair.
In March of 2006, she announced her candidacy for the Massachusetts Senate.
She is married to Arthur Wolf, a professor at Western New England College School of Law and former attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Candaras has one son.
