Sandy Mewies Explained

Sandy Mewies
Constituency Am:Delyn
Assembly:National Assembly for WalesWelsh
Majority:2,881 (12.4%)
Term Start:1 May 2003
Term End:6 April 2016
Predecessor:Alison Halford
Successor:Hannah Blythyn
Birth Date:19 February 1950
Birth Place:Brymbo, Wrexham, Wales
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 represented the constituency of Delyn at the National Assembly for Wales from her election in 2003 until 2016.[2]

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 and again in 2011. At the 2011 election she joined the Labour Co-operative Assembly Group.[3] She was Chair of the European and External Affairs Committee and sat on the Enterprise and Learning Committee.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Assembly for Wales – Assembly Member details – Sandy Mewies . 9 May 2011 . 24 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110524105348/http://senedd.assemblywales.org/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=170 . dead .
  2. Web site: Sandy Mewies AM – Delyn . . 2011. 22 February 2011. er=Welsh Labour blog .
  3. Web site: Annual Report 2011 . . 16 July 2024.