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.

She previously served in the Vermont House of Representatives from Orange County's 2nd district, having been first elected in 2004.

[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.