Senate District 7
Nicole Grohoski

Sen. Grohoski is an energy efficiency educator from Ellsworth. Raised by her mother, a school nurse, and father, a Vietnam veteran and electrician, Sen. Grohoski shares her parents’ commitment to public service and the health and well-being of her community. She is a Meals on Wheels volunteer driver, a wilderness first responder, a Maine Master Naturalist, a Whitewater Nationals Canoe Champion, and a former volunteer firefighter. She was the first woman to paddle the 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT), and she served on the NFCT Board for nine years.

Sen. Grohoski joined the Senate after serving two terms in the House of Representatives. She is the Senate chair of the Legislature’s Taxation Committee and is serving her fourth term on the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee. She is also a member of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Maine Climate Council. She is a graduate of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics and Middlebury College, where she studied environmental chemistry and mathematics.

Throughout her time in the Legislature, she has worked tirelessly for Maine people and our shared environment. She is committed to improving access to rural health care, investing in infrastructure, funding public education, delivering property tax relief, and protecting our environment. In 2021, Sen. Grohoski sponsored a first-in-the-nation law to hold the corporations that produce packaging waste responsible for paying to recycle it through an Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging program.

Her district includes the towns of Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Castine, Cranberry Isles, Deer Isle, Ellsworth, Frenchboro, Isle au Haut, Lamoine, Mount Desert, Orland, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Southwest Harbor, Stonington, Surry, Swan’s Island, Tremont, Trenton, and Verona Island.