---
type: Person
title: "Thomas Paolino"
description: "RI Senate District 17 — RI State Senate District 17"
role: "RI Senate District 17"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "RI"
district: "RI State Senate District 17"
represents: "us/states/ri/districts/senate/17"
tenure:
  start: "2017-01-03"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "eed46def-bd5e-43c3-bb89-778c01fbe6c4"
  office: "bde1a587-c87d-44d7-9fa9-c2e8a9c550e2"
  tenure: "1be50c75-dae1-46ea-988f-33cd9afb37f2"
  jurisdiction: "3249f025-4032-4110-a4e8-2518b73c03c3"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ri]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Thomas Paolino

Current RI Senate District 17 (RI State Senate District 17).

Represents [RI State Senate District 17](/us/states/ri/districts/senate/17.md).

## Sources

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

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