Senator Joan Hartley,

Senate Deputy President Pro Tempore is the Chair of Commerce Committee and Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, Senate Chair of the Manufacturing Caucus, a member of the Executive & Legislative Nominations Committee, Legislative Management Committee, and Regulations Review Committee.

Joan served 8 terms in the House of Representatives, 73rd District, and was Speaker Pro Tempore, the third-highest ranking position in the House. She has served 12 terms in the CT State Senate and is currently Senate Deputy President Pro Tempore.

Joan worked in private sector management for the largest health care insurer and additionally worked in the residential real-estate market.

As a former educator, she co-authored the State’s early school readiness legislation which became a national model. Hartley championed expanded 4-year degree programs at the Waterbury UConn Regional Campus; additionally establishing the campus as an Allied Health Center of excellence, and most recently launched a robotics institute in conjunction with Waterbury UConn, and the Waterbury Public School system.

Joan has been recognized for growing the State’s Brownfield Remediation program, increasing funding levels and expanding application. She successfully led efforts to simplify the State’s Transfer Act and transitioning it to a Release Base Model; as well as, completing a modernization of the State’s Historic Preservation Process.

Joan represents the city of Waterbury, the borough of Naugatuck, and the Town of Middlebury.