Shari Cantor (born 1960) is a Certified Public Accountant and politician from West Hartford, Connecticut.
She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut (UConn) with a degree in accounting.
[5] Challenges during her term as mayor have included conflict with the Metropolitan District of Connecticut and dealing with the effects of a decrease in state education aid.
[9] She has been on the UConn board of trustees since 2014 and as of May 2019 she was one of two candidates under consideration to replace resigning chairman Thomas E. Kruger.
Kruger had named her as his preferred successor over lobbyist and former Connecticut House Speaker Thomas D. Ritter, writing that "it’s time for the University board to be led by a woman.”[10]