Sue’s family has strong Eastern Connecticut roots going back to the colonial days, including a great grandfather named Nathaniel Fanning who was a family relation to Governor Gurdon Saltonstall.

 

Sue grew up in Noank until her family relocated to Griswold where she went on to graduate from Griswold High School in 1990.  Her father, Thomas Hatfield, was a professor for 40 years at Mitchell College in New London and her mother was a Registered Nurse on the cardiac unit at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital. 

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Sue married Nicholas Peter Leary in December of 2000, who recently retired as a state trooper.   They lived in Plainfield for several years before relocating to Pomfret where they currently reside with their two sons, William (10) and Danny (6) and K-9 Elvis.