Leora Levy

Leora Mariana Levy is a Cuban-born American businesswoman and politician. She was the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Connecticut. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022. Levy was elected in 2016 to a four-year term as the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Connecticut. She replaced Pat Longo as Connecticut's Republican national committeewoman following the 2016 Republican National Convention. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. Levy earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1978. Her career experience includes working as the finance chair of the Connecticut gubernatorial campaigns of Tom Foley and Bob Stefanowski, the finance chair of the Connecticut Republican Party, the director of Soldier Strong, and a trader with Phibro Salomon.