Legislative Information
District: 4 ( West Brandywine Hundred, Greenville, Centerville, Hockessin and parts of Pike Creek) 
Legislative Service: Senate, 2018 to present
Current Senate Committees:
  • Education Committee, Chair
  • Environment & Energy Committee
  • Senate Finance Committee
  • Banking, Business & Insurance Committee 
Personal Information
Education:
  • Brandywine High School Class of 1983 
  • University of Delaware, Communications (B.A.) Class of 1988
  • University of Delaware, Literature & Pedagogy (M.A.) Class of 1994
Current Occupation: 
  • Legislator
Past Occupation: 
  • High School Teacher
Family: Spouse, Bill
Biography: 
Sen. Laura Viviana Sturgeon represents the Fourth Senate District, which includes West Brandywine Hundred, Greenville, Centerville, Hockessin and parts of Pike Creek.
The daughter of Argentine immigrants, Sturgeon has lived or worked in Delaware since she was just over a year old. A proud graduate of Brandywine High School, she later earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in English literature, both from the University of Delaware.

Sturgeon worked as a public school teacher for 25 years, before retiring from her job teaching Spanish at Concord High School in late 2019. Before Concord, she taught English at Delcastle Technical High School and Hodgson Vocational Technical High School for 17 years.

Prior to running for public office, Laura served in an appointed position on her local teacher union’s executive committee and later won a seat on the board of the Delaware State Education Association, the largest union in the state. She also was active in various community groups and nonprofit organizations. Those experiences, combined with her passion for women’s rights and her desire to help mold public education policy, inspired her to run for a seat in the Delaware General Assembly in 2018.
 
She won a decisive victory against a long-time, well-financed incumbent by mobilizing grassroots activists to knock on tens of thousands of doors over a two-year period to become the first Latina ever elected to the Delaware State Senate, which stands as one of her proudest accomplishments.

Sen. Sturgeon currently serves as chair of the Senate Education Committee and is a member of the Banking, Business & Insurance, Environment & Energy and Joint Finance committees.

She and her husband Bill live in Woodbrook with their standard poodle and two very ornery cats.

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Legislative Contact Information
Senator Laura Sturgeon
411 Legislative Ave.
Dover, DE 19901
(302) 744-4135
laura.sturgeon@delaware.gov
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 Delaware State Senate Democratic Caucus, 2020.