Senator Maria Collett of Fort Washington has been elected Pennsylvania’s Senate Majority Leader for the 2027–2028 legislative session.

According to abc27, Collett will serve as the state’s first-ever female Democratic Party Senate Majority Leader.

Collett said the following in a post:

I am humbled and honored that my Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus colleagues have entrusted me to serve as the next Senate Majority Leader.

I feel the weight of that trust every bit as much as the privilege of it. I am just as mindful of the responsibility handed to us by the people of Pennsylvania, who have sent Senate Democrats to the majority for the first time in a generation because they want a government that works for them.

Together, we will lower costs for working families, raise the minimum wage, strengthen our schools, protect fundamental rights, and build an economy that offers opportunity to every community.

I’m ready to get to work.

Collett represents the 12th Senatorial District across parts of Montgomery County, stretching from Lower Moreland in the east to Salford Township in the west. She was re-elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in the general election on November 3.

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