BIOGRAPHY

Susan Bysiewicz has served as Connecticut’s 109th Lieutenant Governor since 2019 and began her second term on January 4, 2023. She presides over the State Senate and works with Governor Lamont on job growth and investment in the state’s future.

Earlier she was Connecticut’s Secretary of the State from 1999 to 2011 and a state representative for Middletown, Middlefield and Durham. The granddaughter of immigrants from Poland and Greece, she grew up on her family’s farm in Middletown, graduated from Yale and Duke Law School, and wrote a biography of Governor Ella Grasso. She lives in Middletown with her husband, David Donaldson.