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House of Representatives Co-Chairs

Hannah Kane (R – Shrewsbury) serves as the State Representative for the Eleventh Worcester District, representing the towns of Shrewsbury and Westborough, precinct 4, and was sworn in for her fifth term in January 2023.

Hannah serves in the 193rd Legislative Session as the Ranking Minority Member of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, the Joint Committee on Public Health, and the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs and is a Member of the House Committee on Ethics.

Hannah is deeply committed to public service. Hannah is President of the Hannah Kane Charitable Foundation that hosts a charity golf tournament primarily benefitting Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services, St, Anne’s Human Services and Westborough Food Pantry, donating over $450,000 in her district in the past seven years. Hannah is a Trustee for the Seven Hills Foundation and serves as Advisory Council Chair for Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT. Hannah serves as an elected Town Meeting Member for more than 20-years, President of the Shrewsbury Public Schools Foundation and a member of the Shrewsbury Coalition for Addiction Prevention and Education. 

Hannah serves as Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones designee on the Rare Disease Advisory Council, the Women’s Rights History Trail Task Force, the Massachusetts Food Policy Council, the Commission on Malnutrition Prevention Among Older Adults, and the Massachusetts Commission on Unaccompanied Homeless Youth. is a Founder and Co-chair of the first in the nation Food System Caucus and last fall, Hannah launched the MA Legislative Caucus on Cancer Awareness with (now former) Rep. Thomas Golden.

Hannah and her husband Jim have lived in Shrewsbury for twenty-five years and have three children, Madison, Caitlin and Patrick. Madison attends Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, Caitlin attends Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts and Patrick attends Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

State Representative Andy X. Vargas represents the 3rd Essex District (Haverhill) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He serves as the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses. He also serves as the Chair of the MA Black & Latino Caucus.

Rep. Vargas was previously elected to the Haverhill City Council, where he served as the city's first Latino elected official. He grew up in Haverhill and his family origins are from the Dominican Republic. He is a proud graduate of Haverhill High and Boston University. Rep. Vargas is also an alumnus of the Obama White House and previously worked for Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll), helping entrepreneurs start their businesses.

Some of his legislation successfully signed into law include mandating civics education, universal school meals, boosting housing production, and the expansion of access to the life-saving drug, Naloxone.

He resides in Haverhill with his wife Rikelma – an educator and unfortunately a Yankees fan. They are parents to two happy boys, Rubén and Henry.

Mindy Domb (D-Amherst) has served as the State Representative from the 3rd Hampshire District, representing the communities of Amherst, Granby and Pelham, since 2018. Immediately prior to taking office, Mindy served as the Executive Director of the Amherst Survival Center. The Center is a one stop location for basic needs, providing food, free health care, and community for residents of Hampshire and Franklin Counties. Services include a food pantry, senior mobile pantry, community kitchen, job search assistance, food recovery, and more. There, she launched Project HungeRX to support assessments of food security in the medical setting and increase referrals to hunger relief programs. She also worked to amplify people’s lived experiences and share their challenges to elected officials through its Feed Democracy project. Previously, she served on Amherst Town Meeting for two terms and worked extensively in the HIV/AIDS epidemic as an educator, trainer, program planner, advocate, community organizer and congressional aide.

She most recently served on the Joint Committees on the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA), Higher Education, COVID-19 Oversight, and Revenue. She served on the Special Committee on the Holyoke Soldiers Home COVID-19 Outbreak, the Special Task Force on Human Service Transportation, and is currently a commissioner on The Ellen Story Commission on Postpartum Depression.

Norman Orrall has represented the 12th Bristol District since 2019. The district includes the Towns of Berkley, Lakeville, and Middleborough as well as the City of Taunton. Norman currently serves on the following Legislative committees: Bonding (Ranking Member), Transportation, Municipalities and Regional Government, and Ethics. Norman also serves as the House Appointee to the UMass Cranberry Station Board of Oversight that provides research and support to the cranberry industry in Massachusetts.

He has been married to Keiko Matsudo Orrall for 35 years and has two adult children and three grandchildren. Norman’s family has been committed to serving their community for generations and he has continued this family tradition by serving in local government as a former Town Moderator and as a former member of the on the Lakeville Finance Committee. He also serves as a volunteer and past president of the Lakeville Lions Club.

Prior to becoming State Representative, Norman has been a professional civil engineer for over thirty years, responsible for major infrastructure projects in Ohio, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. His professional experience as a manager of complicated projects and budgets led to an appointment by Governor Baker as Chief of the Division of the Planning and Engineering for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. At the DCR, he was responsible for developing and executing a $120 million annual capital improvement plan for projects throughout the Commonwealth.

Norman grew up in a farm family and continued farming on family land growing vegetables and hay. He is committed as a legislator to helping farmers in all aspects of their operation including maintaining access to land on which to farm. The challenges to farmers in the Commonwealth are many, but he believes there are many opportunities as well. It is his hope as legislator to promote policies that mitigate the challenges and open the opportunities to provide affordable, healthy food to the residents of Massachusetts.