Eileen M. Daily

Long active in her community, Senator Daily was First Selectwoman in Westbrook from 1983 to 1989, a member of the Westbrook Board of Selectmen from 1989 to 1991, and served on the Westbrook Board of Education from 1976 to 1983. In fact much of the Senator’s work is still local in the way she personally helps each of the twelve towns she represents.

Since 1985, Daily has been a member of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Commission. The Senator also serves on the Board of Directors of the Valley Shore YMCA and the Middlesex County Substance Abuse Action Council.

Among the Senator’s recent accomplishments, she helped secure funding for erosion control and other improvements to the Lyman Viaduct in Colchester, and continues to monitor that environmentally sensitive project. She also successfully promoted the protection of the striking Eight Mile River Watershed within the national Wild and Scenic River system.

Senator Daily was instrumental in negotiating the components of and funding for an innovative and comprehensive industrial wastewater treatment facility in Clinton, and likewise helped bring parties together on a plan to provide Westbrook with a new train station and public works garage.

Senator Daily has twice been selected to visit foreign countries to help on local matters in those venues. Her visit to Ireland was with a national Catholic/Protestant team that traveled almost exclusively in Northern Ireland, meeting primarily with residents and local leaders on their peacekeeping efforts.

In the fall of 2004 Daily was part of a 15-member trade delegation from the National Foundation of Women Legislators (NFWL) to tour the Kingdom of Bahrain. That country is best known as the Gateway to the Persian Gulf and has had friendly relations with the United States for more than 100 years. The main focus of the Senator’s trip that time was to assist women—who had just secured the right to vote—and help them prepare to run in local elections.

Senator Daily and her husband Jim have lived in Westbrook for over 30 years. They have two grown children—Jeff and Amy.

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