[3] Boucher was born Antonietta Iannuzzi on December 4, 1949 in Italy and when she was five, she and her family immigrated to Naugatuck, Connecticut.
She was first elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in November 1996 from the 143rd District, which included the eastern portion of Norwalk and most of Wilton.
[7] Boucher has continued to work on transportation-related issues,[8] supporting the need to replenish the Highway Trust Fund.
[9] Toni Boucher won against Democrat, Paul Burnham, in the 2004 election, taking 61% of the votes.
[10] In the 2008 election, Toni Boucher won the senatorial 26th district seat following her six terms in Connecticut House of Representatives.
[20] After exploring the possibility for more than 10 months, Boucher made the "not easy" decision to withdraw from the race.
On November 6, 2018, however, she was defeated by the 22 year-old, first-time candidate, Will Haskell, one of several Democrats who helped solidify a majority control of both houses of the legislature.