Experience: Elected and community service:State senator, 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex District, January 2012 – present
State representative, 24th Middlesex District, 2007 – January 2012
Belmont selectman, 1998-2007
Past chairman, Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge Stormwater Flooding Board
Past chairman, Belmont Democratic Town Committee
Past member, Steering Committee of Suburban Coalition
Past member, Fiscal Policy Committee of Massachusetts Municipal Association
Past town meeting member, Precinct 2
Past chairman, South Pleasant Street Land Use Committee
Past coach/assistant coach, Belmont Soccer Association.
Previous professional experience (2007-1979 in reverse order):
Defense attorney, private practice, including court-appointed criminal defense (received Liacos Award for commitment to protecting the constitutional rights of criminal defendants)
Associate director for public policy, Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School
Senior criminal justice advisor to Join Together, Boston University School of Public Health
Faculty program director, Program on Drugs and Crime, Kennedy School of Government Executive Programs
Co-chair, Harvard Interdisciplinary Working Group on Drugs and Addictions
Massachusetts assistant attorney general, asset forfeiture chief in Narcotics and Special Investigations Division, deputy chief prosecutor in Public Protection Bureau
Vice president/project manager, Wall Street investment banks (including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs), computer systems development for securities trading and operations
Law clerk, Federal District Court, Boston
Research associate, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation
