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Saud Anwar
Towns represented: East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, South Windsor
Saud Anwar earned a master’s degree in public health from Yale University. Anwar’s career experience includes working as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine with Manchester Memorial and Rockville General Hospitals, a commissioner with Asian Pacific American Affairs, and a member of the Equity Leadership Council of Connecticut, CT Health Foundation, and State Emergency Response Commission. He has also been a member of South Windsor’s Town Council and the mayor of South Windsor. He founded the South Windsor Hunger Action Team, Zero Waste South Windsor, the South Windsor Alliance for Progress, and the South Windsor Haiti School Inc.
Anwar has volunteered as a board member with the South Windsor Community Foundation, chair with the South Windsor Human Relations Commission, a volunteer coordinator after the events of September 11, 2001, and has gone on medical missions in Haiti and Pakistan. He has also been a consultant with the FBI’s Multi-Cultural Advisory Committee and the British Department of Communities and Local Government.
202 TENURE INFO
- Tenure: 2019 – Present
- Term ends: 2027
2025 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
- Appropriations Committee
- Housing Committee
- Human Services Committee
- Insurance and Real Estate Committee, Vice-Chair
- Public Health Committee, Co-Chair
2024 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
State Senate District 3 — at a glance
Population
| Total population | 100,265 |
| Foreign-born population | 17,665 |
| Population under age 18 | 21,532 |
| Population ages 65+ | 15,439 |
Ethnicity
| Percent Latino | 23% |
| Percent white | 50% |
| Percent Black | 15% |
| Percent other race | 13% |
Housing
| Total households | 39,524 |
| Owner-occupied households | 23,164 |
| Homeownership rate | 68% |
| Cost-burdened households | 12,852 |
| Cost-burden rate | 33% |
Income
| Poverty status known | 99,436 |
| Population in poverty | 10,047 |
| Poverty rate | 10% |
| Low-income population | 24,006 |
| Low-income rate | 24% |
District data used with permission of DataHaven 2024 Connecticut State Legislative District Profiles. Legislator data used with permission of Ballotpedia. Have a correction or addition to report about this data? Email us.
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