Janet Bewley

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State Senator Janet Bewley Represents Wisconsin’s 25th Senate District. Janet was elected to the Senate in the fall of 2014 after serving two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly and re-elected in 2018. In May of 2020, her democratic colleagues elected her to serve as the Senate’s Minority Leader. Janet was born in 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of four children in a hard-working family. Her father was a truck driver, and her mom ran the house. In 1973 she became the first member of her family to graduate from college, Case Western Reserve. After a few years working in the ocean freight business, Janet went on to graduate school and earned a Master’s in Academic Administration from the University of Maine in 1977. And then she moved to Northern Wisconsin……and found her home. Senator Bewley’s professional career spans more than 30 years, including working as a Senior Community Development Officer for the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, Family Administrator at HRK Group in Bayfield, executive Director of the Mary H. Rice Foundation and Dean of Students at Northland College. Janet was one of the original cast members at Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua and continues to perform as part of the Rittenhouse Chamber Singers. She is married to David Saetre, a retired Professor of Religion and Campus Minister, Northland College. She and David have five grown children and five fantastic grandchildren.

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