Sandy Mewies

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Sandy Mewies AM

Member of the Welsh Assembly for Delyn
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2003
Preceded by	Alison Halford
Majority	2,881 (12.4%)
Personal details
Born	(1950-02-19) 19 February 1950 (age 62) Brymbo, Wrexham, Wales
Political party	Welsh Labour
Alma mater	Open University

Sandra (Sandy) Mewies AM (born 16 February 1950) is a Welsh Labour^[1] politician. Born in Brymbo, Wrexham, Mewies has represented the constituency of Delyn at the National Assembly for Wales since her election in 2003.^[2]

1 Education
2 Political career
3 Offices held
4 References
5 External links

Education

Grove Park Girls' Grammar School, Wrexham. Holds a degree from the Open University and is an Honorary Fellow of the North East Wales Institute. She has worked as a journalist, in the voluntary sector running the former Clwyd Community Care Federation and as a lay inspector of schools. She is a former director of the Wales European Centre in Brussels.

Political career

County and Community Councillor, Wrexham for 16 years - she served as deputy leader and Mayor.

She was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003 as a Labour candidate to represent Delyn and re-elected in 2007 with a majority of 511. She is Chair of the European and External Affairs Committee and sits on the Enterprise and Learning Committee.

Offices held

National Assembly for Wales
Preceded by Alison Halford	Assembly Member for Delyn 2003–present	Incumbent

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Wales

As of the 4th Assembly

Labour (30)	Leighton Andrews Mick Antoniw (Rosemary Butler) Christine Chapman Jeffrey Cuthbert Alun Davies Keith Davies Mark Drakeford Carwyn Jones † Rebecca Evans Vaughan Gething Janice Gregory John Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Edwina Hart Mike Hedges Jane Hutt Julie James Ann Jones Huw Lewis Sandy Mewies Julie Morgan Lynne Neagle Gwyn R Price Jenny Rathbone David Rees Carl Sargeant Ken Skates Gwenda Thomas Joyce Watson

Conservatives (14)	Mohammad Asghar Angela Burns Byron Davies Andrew R. T. Davies † Paul Davies Suzy Davies· Janet Finch-Saunders Russell George William Graham Mark Isherwood David Melding Darren Millar Nick Ramsay Antoinette Sandbach

Plaid Cymru (11)	Jocelyn Davies Dafydd Elis-Thomas Llyr Huws Gruffydd Bethan Jenkins Alun Ffred Jones Elin Jones Rhodri Glyn Thomas Leanne Wood† Ieuan Wyn Jones Simon Thomas Lindsay Whittle

Liberal Democrats (5)	Peter Black Eluned Parrott William Powell Aled Roberts Kirsty Williams †

Presiding Officer: Rosemary Butler † = Party leaders

References

^ http://www.senedd.assemblywales.org/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=170
^ "Sandy Mewies AM – Delyn". er=Welsh Labour blog. Welsh Labour. 2011. http://welshlabour.wordpress.com/our-campaign/sandy-mewies-am-delyn/. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

External links

Persondata
Name	Mewies, Sandy
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	19 February 1950
Place of birth	Brymbo, Wrexham, Wales
Date of death
Place of death