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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Antonietta "Toni" Boucher |
| Address | 5 Wicks End Lane
Wilton, Connecticut , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
December 04, 1949
(74 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Now in her fourth term in office, State Representative Toni Boucher was first elected to the House of Representatives in November 1996 from the 143rd District, which includes the eastern portion of Norwalk and most of Wilton.
Representative Boucher has assumed leadership roles in both the public and private sectors. Currently an Assistant Minority Leader in the General Assembly, she has earned a reputation as a strong pro-business, education and transportation advocate who gets results for business, constituents and staff. In the legislature, she serves as a member of the legislature?s Appropriations Committee,( including its higher education, transportation, human services and collective bargaining subcommittees), the Education Committee and the Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee.
Previously, Rep. Boucher was the Ranking House Republican Member of the General Assembly?s Human Services Committee working on issues involving a broad scope of state administered services. She also has served on the Education, Housing, Transportation and Labor and Public Employees Committees. Nationally, she is a member of the National Conference of State Legislatures? Education Committee and its federal Education, Labor and Workforce Committee.
Representative Boucher helped lead the way on traffic relief initiatives for Southwestern Connecticut. She has been an outspoken advocate for education at all levels, and in 1998 she authored and helped pass a measure that reduces the mandatory age at which a child must enroll in school from seven to five. She successfully worked for legislation to emphasize early reading success and to enhance educational accountability.
Representative Boucher remains committed to lowering taxes for Connecticut residents and businesses alike. She is known as a major proponent of the small business community.
In the private sector, Representative Boucher works as marketing director for Commonfund, headquartered in Wilton, a $25-billion fund manager for 1,400 educational, nonprofit and health care institutions.
Representative Boucher has a distinguished record of service to the community with a strong emphasis on education. From June of 1995 to December 1996, she served on the Connecticut State Board of Education, having been appointed to the position by Governor John G. Rowland.
The State Board of Education is responsible for establishing Connecticut?s education policy and overseeing a $1.5 billion annual budget and statewide network of vocational-technical schools. As a member of the Board, Representative Boucher co-chaired the committee responsible for developing the Five-Year Comprehensive Plan, which is mandated for the General Assembly every five years, and was chair of the Board?s Policy Development Committee.
Representative Boucher also served as a member of the Wilton Board of Selectmen and served as the Town Representative to the Council on Public Facilities. The projects in which she was involved included the Wilton Community Center and expansion of two elementary schools and a middle school. She has been active in the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and was a member of its Labor Relations, Municipal Law, Liability and Insurance committees.
Representative Boucher is a former member (1987-94) of the Wilton Board of Education and a former Chair of the board (1991-93) where she was responsible for the development and oversight of an annual budget of $23 million. She also served on the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and was a member of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
Representative Boucher also serves as a Trustee of the Weir Farm Heritage Trust, an advisory member of the Board of Directors of the Wilton Education Foundation and an advisory board member of the New Canaan Nature Center. She has been a member of five school/community based planning teams (Miller, Driscoll, Cider Mill, Middlebrook and Wilton High School). She was a member of the Quality and Integrated Education Local Planning Committee, the Foreign Language Task Force (1978-92), Our Lady of Fatima Fundraising Steering Committee, Geystone Estates Association Board Member, Wilton YMCA Expansion Fund, the board of the Wilton Youth Council?s Project 94, 96 and 2000 and the Technology Task Force (1993-present), the Gifted Task Force (1988-90). She has been active in Wilton PTAs for 12 years.
Rep. Boucher was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of New Canaan Cares. She is a member and former Board member of the Wilton League of Women Voters, a member and volunteer for the Wilton Historical Society, a member of the Board of Directors of the Wilton Chapter of the AFS, the Friends of the Library and the YMCA Expansion Fund.
In 1998, the Connecticut Legal Immigrant and Refuge Coalition honored Representative Boucher for her outstanding public achievements as an immigrant to the United States. Representative Boucher was born in Italy and moved to the U.S. as a child.
She is a recipient of the Southwest Area (CT) Commerce and Industry Association?s Community Leader Award and the Connecticut Legal Immigrant and Refuge Coalition?s 1998 Outstanding Legal Immigrant Award.
Representative Boucher has experience in business as the founder and owner of a small business and in corporate management for two Fortune 500 companies. She co-founded and has served on the Board of Directors of a marketing design agency in San Diego, California, which specialized in clients working in biogenetic, aerospace and leading edge computer applications. She is currently Director of the Commonfund Institute. Fluent in Spanish and Italian, she also has worked as a translator and secondary education language teacher.
She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut in international marketing, Series 7 and 63 certification and attended the Commonfund Endowment Management Institute at the Harvard Business School.
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