Principal

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

• 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).

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

Salem State College, Suffolk University Law School.