Listening to our fellow citizens and responding to their concerns with common sense solutions to protect individual freedoms and provide a better quality of life for all of Connecticut.

		Claudia Powers Deputy Republican Leader-at-Large 15 Hendrie Avenue, Riverside 06878 Residence: 203-637-1438 Capitol: 1-800-842-1423

Education: University of Hawaii: BA; Columbia University: MA

Occupation: Former Special Education Teacher

Public Service:  Current member representing Governor Jodi Rell on the Education Commission of the States; Current member of Board of Trustees at the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium; Past and current member and former chair of the Greenwich Republican Town Committee; former vice chairman and current member of the Greenwich League of Women Voters; former member of the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting; member of the Republican Roundtable of Greenwich; former member of the State Birth-To-Three Council; former member of the State Advisory Council on Special Education; former member of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Board; member of the Board of Directors of the Lower Fairfield County Regional Action Council; member of the American Legislative Exchange Council; member of the National Order of Women Legislators; member of the Associate Board of the Arch Street Greenwich Teen Center; past member of the Board of Directors for the Arch Street Greenwich Teen Center; former member of the Cos Cob School Building Committee, the Riverside Association, the Board of the Greenwich Council on Youth and Drugs; volunteer with Meals-on-Wheels and the Greenwich Red Cross; member of and Lay Eucharistic Minister at Christ Episcopal Church, member of Christ Episcopal Church’s Altar Guild; member of the Governor's Prevention Partnership; member of the Advisory Council to the Domestic Abuse Service at the Greenwich YWCA.

Legislative Service: State House of Representatives 1993, 1995, 1997 (Assistant Minority Leader), 1999 (Minority Whip), 2001 (Minority Whip), 2003 (Deputy Minority Leader), 2005 (Deputy Minority Leader), 2007 (Deputy Minority Leader-at-Large)

Awards and Recognition: Certificate of Appreciation (for obtaining out-patient clinic for veterans), Greenwich American Legion Post 29 – May 27, 1996; Certificate of Appreciation, Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich – December 15, 2004; Excellent Service to Children, Unitarian Society of Hartford and Shared Parenting Council of Connecticut – February 21, 2006; Outstanding Legislator in Reducing Underage Drinking, Connecticut Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking – October 13, 2003 and October 25, 2005; NEA’s Read Across America Certificate of Appreciation, National Education Association – March 2, 2005.

Committees: Higher Education, Judiciary, Legislative Management, Regulation Review

State Representative Claudia “Dolly” Powers is the highest-ranking member of the Greenwich delegation to the General Assembly... [Full Biography] (PDF/14kb)