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Rep. Glen R. Grell was first elected the state representative of the 87th Legislative District in 2004.

A long-time civic and community leader, Grell is a lifelong resident of Cumberland County. The 87th Legislative District is comprised of the townships of East Pennsboro, Hampden and Silver Spring, the Borough of Camp Hill, and the second voting precinct of Wormleysburg Borough.

During the 2007-08 legislative session, Grell serves on the Judiciary, State Government, Insurance and Labor Relations committees. In addition, he is a member of the Speaker’s Commission on Legislative Reform and is a member of the House Republican Policy Committee Welfare Reform Task Force.

Prior to being elected to the House, Grell was a practicing attorney in the area since earning his law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in 1981. He was formerly with the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, having previously practiced in the areas of municipal and administrative law, government affairs, real estate law and finance, and public procurement.

From 2000 to 2005, Grell served as solicitor of Hampden Township, which is the largest municipality in Cumberland County. He worked closely with the township commissioners on a variety of projects that have improved the quality of life for township residents.

As a highly regarded real estate attorney, Grell was appointed in 2004 to serve on the Joint State Government Commission’s Advisory Committee on Real Property Law in the first phase of its mission to advise the General Assembly on the codification of real estate laws in Pennsylvania. During the 2005-06 legislative session, Grell was the prime House sponsor of legislation to protect private property rights and reform the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, which became Acts 34 and 35 of 2006.

Grell served as deputy general counsel to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge from 1995 to 2000. In that capacity, he had primary responsibility for Commonwealth contracting, review and approval of Commonwealth contracts, deeds, leases, inter-agency agreements and other obligations.

His civic activities include serving on the Shippensburg University Council of Trustees since 1995; serving as vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Masonic Youth Foundation and as chairman of the Foundation’s Educational Endowment Fund Scholarship Committee; serving as director of the Cumberland Valley Eagle Foundation since 2002; and having served as chairman of a Fund Distribution Panel of the United Way of the Capital Region. He also serves on the board of directors of Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland and Perry Counties.

He has been a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association, Pennsylvania State Association of Township Solicitors, the Urban Land Institute, the West Shore Chamber of Commerce, the Harrisburg Regional Chamber of Commerce, Greater Harrisburg Association of Realtors and Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg.

Grell has been active politically at the local, statewide and national level for more than 25 years. He has served as an elected committeeman in Hampden Township, as deputy chairman and vice chairman of the Cumberland County Republican Committee, as county coordinator and regional field director for Gov. Tom Ridge’s gubernatorial campaign, as Pennsylvania co-chairman of Lawyers for Bush-Cheney, as a volunteer for the 2000 Republican National Convention and in many other local and regional political campaigns.

Grell is a 1974 graduate of Cumberland Valley High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1978, as well as his J.D. from Dickinson Law School in 1981. He and his wife, the former Elaine Sanzotto, reside in Hampden Township with their two children Cory, a student at Pennsylvania State University, and Alyssa, a student at Cumberland Valley High School.