Sandra Pupatello

Sandra Pupatello
Pupatello at the Toronto Region Board of Trade in 2013
Canadian Senator
from Ontario
Assumed office
March 7, 2025
Nominated byJustin Trudeau
Appointed byMary Simon
Chair of Hydro One
In office
April 1, 2014  April 16, 2015
Preceded byJames Arnett
Succeeded byDavid Denison
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
for Windsor West
(Windsor—Sandwich; 1995–1999)
In office
September 26, 1995  September 7, 2011
Preceded byGeorge Dadamo
Succeeded byTeresa Piruzza
Personal details
Born
Sandra Pizzolitto

(1962-10-06) October 6, 1962
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Political partyOntario Liberal Party
Other political
affiliations
Canadian Senators Group
SpouseJim Bennett
Residence(s)Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Windsor

Sandra Pupatello (née Pizzolitto; born October 6, 1962) is a Canadian politician. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2011 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty. Since 2025, she is a member of the Senate of Canada.

Pupatello ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Ontario in 2013; she placed second to Kathleen Wynne. She unsuccessfully ran for the federal Liberal Party in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Pupatello served as chair of Hydro One from 2014 to 2015.

Pupatello is married to Jim Bennett, a former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Party.