Gail Lavielle
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Gail Lavielle is a Republican politician who currently represents the 143rd Assembly District in the Connecticut House of Representatives
Connecticut House of Representatives
The Connecticut House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency containing nearly 22,600 residents...

. The 143rd District includes parts of Wilton
Wilton, Connecticut
Wilton is a town nestled in the Norwalk River Valley in southwestern Connecticut in the United States. It is located in Fairfield County. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 18,062. In 2007, it was voted as one of CNN Money's "Best Places to Live" in the United States.Located along...

 and Norwalk
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...

, USA. Representative Lavielle serves on the Connecticut General Assembly's Appropriations, Education, and Transportation committees.

Lavielle was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives on November 2, 2010, defeating the incumbent Democrat and winning the election in both the Wilton and Norwalk parts of the 143rd District.

Professional career

For more than 25 years, Lavielle held executive positions in finance, communication, and marketing at Fortune 500 corporations, and held Series 7, 66, and 31 securities licenses. She served as chief executive of a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group and as Senior Vice President of Suez Environment.

She has taught undergraduate courses at the University of Connecticut, and holds an MA in French from Yale, a BA in English from Cornell, and an MBA in finance from UConn. As a music critic, her reviews appeared in The Wall Street Journal and other publications; she is also the author of a book on opera.

Public service

Lavielle has served on the Connecticut Public Transportation Commission, the Connecticut Advisory Council for Professional Standards for School Administrators, and the Governor’s task force on rail station parking and access, as well as the Wilton Board of Finance and the Wilton Energy Commission. She is also a member of the Norwalk River Valley Trail steering committee, the Board of Directors of the Norwalk Senior Center, and the Wilton Kiwanis.

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