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]
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.
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.