Sylvia Larsen

Larsen earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1972. == Career ==

Larsen served ten terms representing District 15, which includes the state's capital city of Concord, along with Henniker, Hopkinton and Warner. Prior to retiring in 2014, she was the Vice Chair of the Capital Budget Committee and a long-term member of the Senate Finance and Joint Fiscal Committees. Larsen was Senate Democratic Leader for over a decade, becoming Senate President Pro Tempore and later was New Hampshire's longest serving female Senate President from 2006 to 2010. For two of those years, 2008 to 2010, she led the nation's first legislative body to include a majority of women with 13 female senators elected to the 24 member body. In 2014, Larsen announced that she would not seek re-election. ==References==