district state_senate succeeded birth_place party preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title state name
5th maine incumbent maine democratic barry hobbins 1956 2012 curtis scamman linda valentino
 maine linda valentino
linda valentino

linda m. valentino -lrb- born 1956 -rrb- is an american politician from maine .
valentino is a democratic state senator from maine 's 5th district , representing part of york county , including her residence of saco .
she was first elected to the maine house of representatives in 2004 and re-elected in 2006 , 2008 and 2010 .
unable to run for re-election to the maine house in 2012 due to term limits , valentino ran in the democratic primary for the open district 5 state senate seat to replace fellow democrat barry hobbins .
valentino won the nomination by beating fellow state representative donald pilon .
valentino easily won the general election , defeating timothy sevigny .
in december 2012 , valentino was named chair of the judiciary committee .
