Sandy Pasch | |
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Pasch in 2011.
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Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 10th and 22nd district |
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In office January 5, 2009 – January 5, 2015 |
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Preceded by | Sheldon Wasserman (D) |
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Born |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
May 19, 1954
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater |
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Rochester |
Profession | Nurse |
Sandy Pasch (born May 19, 1954) is an American nurse from Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin who was a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, from 2009-2015.
Pasch was born Sandra Kawczynski in Milwaukee on May 19, 1954. She graduated from Bay View High School in 1972; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976; a Master of Science in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at the University of Rochester in 1981; and a Master of Arts in Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1999. She worked as an assistant professor at Columbia College of Nursing; as a clinical nurse specialist; and as a community health nurse.
Pasch was elected to the assembly in 2008. After winning a four-way Democratic primary with a narrow plurality, she easily defeated Republican nominee Yash P. Wadhwa by 21,938 to 10,720. She was assigned to the standing committees on public health (serving as vice chair); on corrections and the courts; on criminal justice; on health and healthcare reform; and on housing.