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STATE SENATOR
HARRIETTE L. CHANDLER
State House
Room 312-D
Boston, MA 02133
Telephone: (617) 722-1544
Fax: (617) 722-1357
Party Affiliation - DEMOCRAT
State House E-Mail Address: Harriette.Chandler@state.ma.us
DISTRICT REPRESENTED: FIRST WORCESTER. & #151; Worcester, wards 1 to 4, inclusive, 9 and 10, Berlin, Boylston, Clinton, precincts 3 and 4, Holden, Northborough, precincts 1, 2 and 4, Paxton, Princeton and West Boylston.EDUCATION: Wellesley College, B.A. '59; Clark University, Ph.D. '73;
Simmons Graduate School of Management, M.B.A. '83; Worcester State College,
Honorary Doctorate Public Administration '88.
PROFESSION: Legislator.
PUBLIC OFFICE: Mass. House (1995- 2001); Mass. Senate (2001- present).
Committees on which the legislator serves:
Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs (Vice-Chair)
Joint Committee on Public Health
Organizations:
- Massachusetts Legislature's Tobacco Control Caucus
- Worcester Economic Development Council
- City Task Force on Crisis Management
- Mayor's Advisory Committee on At-Risk Youth
- United Way of Central Massachusetts
- Worcester Women's History Project
- Worcester Democratic City Committee
- Massachusetts Democratic State Committee
Senator Chandler's Biography:
Senator Harriette L. Chandler (D-Worcester) was first elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in November of 2000 and was sworn into office on January 3, 2001. She was re-elected to the State Senate 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. She serves as Assistant Vice-Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. She also serves as Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs and as a member of the Joint Committee on Public Health. She represents the City of Worcester and the towns of Boylston, Berlin, Clinton, Holden, Northborough, Paxton, Princeton and West Boylston.
The first woman from Worcester ever to be elected to the Massachusetts State Senate, she served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995-2001. In her last two terms in the House she served as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care. She also served on the Worcester School Committee from 1991-1994.
Senator Chandler earned degrees from Wellesley College (B.A.), Clark University (Ph.D.) and the Simmons College Graduate School of Management (M.B.A.). She is married to Worcester attorney Burton Chandler and has three grown children and four grandchildren.
Senator Chandler is Co-Chair of the Legislature’s Oral Health Caucus, and is a member of the Central Massachusetts Caucus, the Legislature’s Tobacco Control Caucus, the Caucus of Women Legislators, the Leadership Council of the Worcester County Regional Network, the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on At-Risk Youth, the United Way of Central Massachusetts, the Worcester Women’s History Project, the Worcester Democratic City Committee and the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee.