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State Representative, MA House of Representatives 

• Served six terms, representing Newburyport, Amesbury, and Salisbury. 

House Chairman, Joint Committee on Financial Services 

• Authored first-of-its-kind legislation to stem foreclosures caused by predatory loans and encourage loan modifications for thousands of Massachusetts homeowners.  
• Supported implementation of new statutory frameworks for long-term care insurance and stranger-oriented life insurance. 
• Lead sponsor for auto insurance scoring and health care payment reforms. 
• Named Vice President of the Property-Casualty Insurance Committee by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (2013).  
• National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Legislator of the Year (2013). 

House Chairman, Joint Committee on Public Safety 

• Lead sponsor for identity theft and statewide 911 reforms.  
• Instrumental in the passage of new booster seat and recreational ATV laws. 
• Member of the Governor’s Statewide Anti-Crime Council and the Governor’s CORI Reform Commission.  
• National Chair, American Bar Association Re-Entry and Collateral Consequences Committee.  
• Governor-appointed Board Member of the New England Board of Higher Education (2009). 
• Massachusetts Bar Association Legislator of the Year (2007). 

Chief of Staff, MA State Senate 

Assistant District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney of Essex County 

Salem State College

Suffolk University Law School