Senator Lisa Marrache: District 25

On December 6, Lisa Marraché, M.D., was sworn in as a new member of the Maine State Legislature. As a member of the Maine Senate, Marraché serves the people of District 25 in the communities of Albion, Benton, Clinton, Detroit, Pittsfield, Unity Township, Waterville and Winslow.

As a three-term member of the Maine House of Representatives, Marraché brings a great deal of legislative experience with her to the Maine Senate. In the 123rd Legislature, Senator Marraché serves as the Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee and as a member of the Health and Human Services Committee.

In the 122nd Maine Legislature as a member of the House, Marraché served on the Insurance and Financial Services committee where she applied her knowledge and enthusiasm for issues related to health care. Marraché also sponsored a resolution establishing a task force of experts to determine the nature and extent of human trafficking in Maine and to make recommendations for legislative policy. She was also involved with the Legislative task force to develop a statewide cervical cancer prevention plan in Maine.

At the outset of her first term in the 120th Legislature, Marraché became the first resident physician to have served in the Maine house and was part of the first father/daughter legislative team in Maine's history.

In addition to her Legislative commitments, Senator Marraché has participated in both national and global civic initiatives as a member of the National Foundation for Women Legislators, the Foreign Policy Institute, the Democratic Leadership Council and as a German Marshall Fund/ Marshall Memorial Fellow. In this capacity, she has had meaningful dialogue with leaders in Government and examined ways in which transatlantic cooperation can address a variety of global policy challenges.

Since 2002, Marraché and her husband Ronnie have been family physicians in their practice at Elm City Medical Associates, P.A. in Waterville. Marraché is the mother of two children and is an active member of the Maine HIV Advisory Council, the Women’s Legislative Caucus, the Maine Historical Society, and is the founder of the Franco-American Heritage Society of Greater Waterville. She was also Waterville City Councilor in 1999.