Eva Bermudez, a local, state and national union organizer for the Sevice Employees International Union, and outreach worker for Access Health CT is poised to take an open seat on the Legilsative Council Wednesday evening, December 3.

Town Clerk Debbie Halstead told The Newtown Bee that she was prepared to appear at the meeting on the request of local Democratic leadership, to swear in Ms Bermudez.

She is expected to receive the unanimous endorsement of the three Democratic council members who are charged with naming a replacement after Lisa Romano resigned her seat last month.

Newtown Democratic Town Committee Chairman James Juliano said he met MS Bermudez on a Danbury picket line three years ago when she was supporting a strike by health care workers.

Mr Juliano said while Ms Bermudez lacks any experience - either elected or appointed - in Newtown's political or government structure, she has a wealth of experience working on union-related issues with the Connecticut State Employees Association SEIU Local 2001, as well as on political campaigns.

The DTC chair said Ms Bermudez support the unsuccessful campaigns of local Democrat Matt Cole who hoped to win the 106th District statehouse seat, and Rep. Kim Fawcett who had designs on the state Senate seat vacated by Sen John McKinney.

According to her LinkedIn bio, Ms Bermudez also states she supported the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama in Las Vegas and Chester County, Nevada in 2012.

"I brought her into the DTC because we needed someone with her expertise and political savvy," Mr Juliano said of the aspiring council member. "She has been tireless keeping the DTC informed about state and national health care issues."

As recently as late October, Ms Bermudez was a featured panelist for a Connecticut Health Advancement and Research Trust symposium that focused on developing informed, effective consumers and advocates to use their collective power to transform health care to a quality, affordable, person and community-centered system, according to event documents.

She also served as one of 300 Personal Assistors for Access Health CT in 2013, according to reports in the CT Mirror, and was personally responsible for signing up nearly 1,000  of the 19,000 state residents onto the health insurance exchange. She also advocated for making similar services available during the current enrollment period.

Her LinkedIn profile also indicates Ms Bermudez was active with the Hartford Democratic Town Committee for a period of time in 2011; was a Bridgeport Field Coordinator/Office Manager for the 2010 Dan Malloy for Governor campaign; as well as a campaign manager for Edwin Vargas' 2010 campaign for State Senate.

From 2008 to 2009, she served as a Legislative Aid in Washington, DC for Congressman Charles B. Rangel, and was previously active with ConnPIRG, the state Public Interest Research Group. She has served on the board of a Sheldon Street/Charter Oak neighborhood group in Hartford since 2009.

Ms Bermudez earned a certificate of completion from Yale University's Women's Campaign School; and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Pre-Law Studies and Political Science from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metropolitan Campus.

Democratic council members Paul Lundquist, Dan Honan and Daniel Amaral are charged with naming a replacement for Ms Romano, and upon their recommendation, she will complete the remaining portion of Ms Romano's term which runs to December 1, 2015.