Toni Boucher

Toni Boucher
Member of the Connecticut Senate from the 26th District
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 7, 2009
Preceded by Judith Freedman
Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 143rd District
In office
January 1997 – January 2009
Preceded by Leslie Young
Succeeded by Peggy Reeves
Personal details
Born Italy
Political party Republican
Alma mater American University
University of South Dakota
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website Government website

Antonietta "Toni" Boucher is a Republican member of the Connecticut Senate representing the 26th District since 2009. The 26th District includes the communities of Redding and Wilton, and parts of Bethel, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Weston, and Westport. She had previously served in the Connecticut House of Representatives for 12 years representing the 143rd District.

State Senator

In the 2008 election, Boucher won the senatorial 26th district seat following her six terms in Connecticut House of Representatives.

Currently in the State Senate, Senator Boucher serves as a Deputy Minority Leader. Senator Boucher is the Senate Ranking Member of the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee, Education Committee and Higher Education Committee. She also serves as a member of the General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee, where she is ranking member of the sub committee for Transportation Bonding.

State Representative

Prior to her election to the Connecticut state senate, Boucher served six terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives. She was first elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in November 1996 from the 143rd District, which included the eastern portion of Norwalk and most of Wilton. The district also previously included New Canaan.

Work experience

Boucher holds series 7 and series 63 licenses and is an advisor to the Commonfund Institute.

Boucher holds an MBA in International Marketing from UCONN Business School

Public service experience prior to the General Assembly

Prior to her first term as a State Representative, Boucher served on the Wilton Board of Selectmen and the town of Wilton’s Council on Public Facilities and Insurance Committees. She was also active in the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. In the past, she has served as an advisory board member of the New Canaan Nature Center and as a member of the Our Lady of Fatima Fundraising Steering Committee, Greystone Estates Association Board of Directors, Advisory Board of New Canaan Cares, Wilton League of Women Voters, Wilton Historical Society, Board of Directors of the Wilton Chapter of the AFS, and Friends of the Wilton Library.

Boucher has served as a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education, where she was chair of the state’s policy and long-range planning committees.

From 1986 to 1994, she also served on the Wilton Board of Education, during which time she served as both the board’s chair and secretary. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Wilton Education Foundation and five school/community based planning teams; the Quality and Integrated Education Local Planning Committee and the Foreign Language Task Force (1978–92). She was active in the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and the National Association of State Boards of Education; Wilton YMCA Expansion Fund; Board of the Wilton Youth Council's Project 94, 96 and 2000; Technology Task Force (1993–present); Gifted Task Force (1988–90); and the Wilton Parent-Teacher Associations. Early in her career, she worked as a translator and secondary education language teacher.

Awards

References

    Preceded by
    Leslie Young    		 Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
    from the 143rd District
    January 1997 – January 2009     		Succeeded by
    Peggy Reeves
    Preceded by
    Judith Freedman    		 Member of the Connecticut Senate
    from the 26th District
    2009 – present     		Succeeded by
    incumbent