Listening to our fellow citizens and responding to their concerns with common sense solutions to protect individual freedoms and provide a better quality of life for all of Connecticut.

		John Ryan Assistant Republican Leader 32 Cherry Street, Darien, 06820 Residence: 203-655-7106 Business: 203-656-1066 Capitol: 1-800-842-1423

Education:  University of Notre Dame: BA (cum laude); Boston College Law School: JD

Occupation: Attorney

Public Service:  Former member of the Darien Board of Ethics; former member of the Darien Representative Town Meeting; former Corporation Counsel for the City of Norwalk; former President of the Notre Dame club of Fairfield County; member of the Monogram Club of the University of Notre Dame; former board member of the Greater Norwalk Community council; member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Vitam Center, Inc.; member of the Friends of Norwalk Clean and Green, Inc.; member of the CT Bar Association; member of the American Bar Association; member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association; member of the Connecticut Republican State Central Committee; former member of the Darien Republican Town Committee

Legislative Service: First elected to the House of Representatives in 1995. He was re-elected in 1997, 1999 (Ranking Member, General Law Committee), 2001 (Assistant Minority Leader), 2003 (Assistant Minority Leader), 2005 (Assistant Minority Leader), 2007(Assistant Minority Leader)

Committees: Banks (Ranking Member), General Law, Planning and Development

State Representative John J. Ryan of Darien was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1994 and is currently serving in his sixth term representing Darien and Rowayton... [Full Biography] (PDF/11kb)