Gail.Hamm@cga.ct.gov
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860-240-8585
B.A., Western Michigan University, J.D., Valparaiso University
East Hampton, Middletown
Lawyer, private practice
Hamm participated in the state's public campaign financing program.
| Earle Roberts (R) | 3,773 | (46.3%) |
| Gail K. Hamm (D) | 4,006 | (49.1%) |
| Earle Roberts (CFL) | 156 | (1.9%) |
| Gail K. Hamm (WF) | 217 | (2.7%) |
| 0 | (0%) |
Hamm was elected in 1998 by just 238 votes and has had a mix of easy and tough re-election fights in subsequent campaigns, including an 87-vote win in 2006. In 2010, she won 52 percent of the vote.
Hamm was a legislative aide and then a legislative liaison for the legislature's Permanent Commission on the Status of Women before opening a private law practice. She has had a special interest in juvenile justice and environmental issues.
Hamm reported income from her private law practice, based in Glastonbury, salary as a legislator and income from Connecticut for legislative legal work. She also had a contract with the state to provide legal services to minor children and indigent parents on a case-by-case basis. Her husband, Alan Hurst, is chief financial officer of the Central Connecticut Coast YMCA in New Haven, which contracts with the state to provide various social services. They own a home in East Hampton, and Hurst owns a rental property in Norwalk. They also own properties in Mexico and Florida.They have limited stock holdings.Hamm filed a confidential addendum to list a debt or debts exceeding $10,000. She declined to waive confidentiality, as allowed by law.A note on financial disclosure: Every spring, officials are required to disclose the ownership of real estate, the source of any income exceeding $1,000 in the previous calendar year and securities worth more than $5,000.
| Adopted budget | Yea |
| Campaign finance | Yea |
| Criminal background checks | Absent |
| Deer hunting | Yea |
| Education reform | Yea |
| Electric regulation | Yea |
| Expansion of OTB | Absent |
| School bus seatbelts | Yea |
| Sentencing commission | Absent |
| UConn Health Center | Yea |
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