About Pam

Pamela Z. Sawyer is currently serving in her ninth term as State Representative for the 55th District that includes the towns of Andover, Bolton, Hebron, and Marlborough, having most recently been re-elected on November 4, 2008.
She was appointed Minority Whip by the House Republican leadership in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. She also served as Assistant Minority Leader in 1997, 1999 and 2001. Representative Sawyer is currently serving as the ranking member of the legislature’s Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee as well as a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Transportation Committee.
In addition to her current membership on those committees, Representative Sawyer served as Ranking Member on the Select Committee on Children during her second and sixth terms in office, as well as terms on the Environment and Veterans committees.
A former teacher, Representative Sawyer’s political experience includes twelve years on the Bolton Board of Education, serving from 1981 through 1993. She is also a Justice of the Peace, a member of the Bolton Republican Town Committee, the Bolton Women’s Club and the National Order of Women Legislators (NOWL). She is former president and founding member of the UConn Parents Association, and is currently on the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Southwestern New England.
Since being elected in 1992, Representative Sawyer has voted to reduce taxes by nearly $2 billion, dedicate millions to improve educational quality for our school children and reform the state’s welfare system. She has been, and continues to be, committed to working toward providing quality health care for all Connecticut residents, as well as fighting to preserve open space and farmland. But this year she believe streamlining state government is essential.
Further, Rep. Sawyer has:
–been active as the founding member and Republican House chair of the small town caucus to advance issues important to the 100 small towns in Connecticut,
–worked to pass legislation that established the Small Town Economic Assistance Program grants,
–worked to ban smoking in public buildings,
–create the ’safe havens’ law to allow distressed new mothers to take their newborn infant to a hospital if they do not have a way to care for it ,
–been a tireless supporter of highway safety.
Representative Sawyer was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and attended the Providence public school system. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Science Education from the University of Rhode Island and attended graduate school at the same University.
Representative Sawyer resides with her family in Bolton.