MEXICO — Sheryl Capponi-Briggs is running for the District 116 seat of the Maine House of Representatives, which comprises the towns of Canton, Dixfield, Hartford, Mexico and Peru.
Briggs served four terms in the House from 2007 to 2014, and sat on the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee all eight years.
Briggs graduated from Mexico High School and Mid-State College. She is currently Mexico’s executive secretary and assistant to the town clerk, treasurer and tax collector and is director of General Assistance. She is the town’s ballot clerk and a board member of the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition, River Valley Technology Center and the Oxford Federal Credit Union Supervisory Committee.
She is a member of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, local ATV and snowmobile clubs and Dixfield Swasey-Torrey Post No. 100 American Legion Auxiliary and has served as chaplain. She is an alumnus of Leadership Maine, a powerful, yearlong experience that enhances leadership skills to shape the state’s future.
“During my legislative tenure, I sponsored and passed many bills,” Capponi-Briggs said. “One I am most proud of is ‘An Act Establishing March 30th of each year (as) Vietnam War Remembrance Day.'”
Briggs and her husband, Richard, live in Mexico and have two grown children and three grandchildren.
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