Sarah L. Copeland Hanzas (born July 9, 1970) is an American Democratic Party politician who is currently serving as the Secretary of State of Vermont.

[1][2] Sarah Louise Copeland Hanzas was born in Lake Forest, Illinois on July 9, 1970[3] and her family moved to Vermont in 1971.

[4] Beginning in 2010, she owned a small business in Bradford, the Local Buzz Cafe, which she operated until she closed it in 2021.

[8] In the November general election, she defeated perennial Republican candidate H. Brooke Paige by a vote of 61 to 33 percent.

[10] Copeland is married to John P. Hanzas Jr.[3] They reside in Bradford, Vermont and are the parents of three children.