Career
She served as the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation and the Minister of Industry, Trade, and Technology. She represented the electoral district of Gander. The daughter of Hardy West and Doris Wellon, she was born Sandra West in Gander and was educated there, at the General Hospital School of Nursing in Saint John"s and at Dalhousie University, where she received a diploma in community health nursing
She was Mayor of Gander from 1993 to 1996.
She was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1996 and re-elected in 1999. She chose not to run for re-election in 2003.