Senator Linda Ujifusa was elected in November 2022 to represent District 11 (Portsmouth and Bristol) in the Rhode Island Senate. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and earned her law degree from NYU School of Law, where she served as an editor of the NYU Review of Law & Social Change and was a member of the Moot Court Board. She previously worked at the law firm Mintz Levin, in the U.S. EPA Office of Regional Counsel, and taught legal writing at UC Hastings School of Law. A third-generation Japanese-American, she has lived in Portsmouth since 1993. Before serving in the Senate, she served three terms on the Portsmouth Town Council, including as vice president from 2018 to 2022.
