---
type: Person
title: "Ruth Ward"
description: "NH Senate District 8 — NH State Senate District 8"
role: "NH Senate District 8"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NH"
district: "NH State Senate District 8"
represents: "us/states/nh/districts/senate/8"
tenure:
  start: "2016-12-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "f111cd30-5abe-4b5a-bc8b-081da6d5687d"
  office: "bce94976-216a-4910-9660-396749632ad1"
  tenure: "ed217487-5ac4-4742-a85b-e32eec62b9fa"
  jurisdiction: "6fd9029f-4077-4c67-9aa6-6b8e32177a2e"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, nh]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Ruth Ward

Current NH Senate District 8 (NH State Senate District 8).

Represents [NH State Senate District 8](/us/states/nh/districts/senate/8.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).