State Representative Mary S. Rogeness (R-Longmeadow) represents the Second Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The District includes the towns of Longmeadow, Hampden, Monson and portions of East Longmeadow and the city of Springfield. She was first elected in a 1991 special election, and was re-elected to her seventh full term in November of 2004. Presently, she serves as the Assistant Minority Leader, the second ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Representative Rogeness had previously served as the ranking minority member on the Committee on Long Term Debt and Capital Expenditure and the Committee on Taxation. She has also served on the Committees on Ways and Means, Banks and Banking, and Commerce and Labor. 

Representative Rogeness has long advocated in the House of Representatives for Western Massachusetts economic development and quality of life issues, improving public education and health care, and maintaining state fiscal discipline. She supports a business environment that fosters job creation throughout the Commonwealth.

Representative Rogeness was born in Kansas City, Kansas. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota where she earned a BA in Political Science. After working for the Department of Defense in Washington, DC as a computer programmer, she moved to the Springfield area. She served as an elected member of the Longmeadow School Committee from 1982-1988. Rep. Rogeness is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the Longmeadow Republican Town Committee.

As an elected official, Representative Rogeness is carrying on a family tradition. Her grandmother, Clara Aiken Speer, was a member of the Missouri State Legislature from 1946 to 1958, and her uncle, Leland Speer, served in the Kansas Legislature. She and her husband Dean live in Longmeadow. They are the parents of Emily, James and Paul, and grandparents of Ariel.