Middlesex County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 1,632,002,making it the most populous county in both Massachusetts and New England and the 22nd most populous county in the United States. This also makes the county the most populous county on the East Coast outside of New York or Florida. Middlesex County is one of two U.S. counties to be amongst the top 25 counties with the highest household income and the 25 most populated counties. It is included in the Census Bureau's Boston–Cambridge–Newton,MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area. As part of the 2020 United States census,the Commonwealth's mean center of population for that year was geo-centered in Middlesex County,in the town of Natick.
Newton is a city in Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. It is roughly 8 miles (13 km) west of downtown Boston,and comprises a patchwork of thirteen villages. The city borders Boston to the northeast and southeast,Brookline to the east,Watertown and Waltham to the north,and Weston,Wellesley,and Needham to the west. At the 2020 U.S. census,the population of Newton was 88,923.
Mike Festa is state director of AARP Massachusetts,based in Boston,which serves 800,000 members age 50+ in the commonwealth.
Luther Scott Harshbarger is an American attorney and Democratic politician. He served as the 56th Massachusetts Attorney General from 1991 to 1999. In 1998,he was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts but lost a close race to acting governor Paul Cellucci.
Daniel F. Conley is an American attorney and politician who served as the district attorney for Suffolk County,Massachusetts from 2002 to 2018. Appointed to the office in February 2002,Conley was later elected on November 5,2002,and again in 2006,2010,and 2014. He retired in 2018 to enter private practice.
Martha Mary Coakley is an American lobbyist,lawyer,and former politician who served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. Prior to serving as Attorney General,she was District Attorney of Middlesex County from 1999 to 2007.
Armando David Mazzone served for twenty-six years as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Joseph R. Driscoll is an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011,representing the 5th district of Norfolk County.
Noel Lawrence Hillman is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Douglas Preston Woodlock is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut,Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating,Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at Goodwin,Procter &Hoar,and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986,Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.
William Richard Keating is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he first entered Congress in 2011,representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district until redistricting. Keating's district includes Cape Cod and most of the South Coast. He raised his profile advocating for criminal justice issues in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court from 1977 to 1999 before becoming district attorney of Norfolk County,where he served three terms before being elected to Congress.
Katherine Marlea Clark is an American lawyer and politician who has served as House Minority Whip since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. She previously served as Assistant Speaker from 2021 to 2023 and Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2019 to 2021. Clark was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011 and the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013.
Max Oliver Cogburn Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Allen J. McCarthy is an American lawyer and politician who represented the 7th Plymouth District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.
David Paul Linsky is an American lawyer and politician who currently represents the 5th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Stephen John McGrail is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate.
Edward Eladio Manibusan is a Northern Marianan attorney and politician serving as the first elected Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands. He took office on January 12,2015. He previously served in the position from July 1,1989 to January 8,1990 when it was a gubernatorial appointment.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers parts of Middlesex County and Norfolk County. Democrat David Linsky of Natick has represented the district since 1999. Candidates running for this district seat in the 2020 Massachusetts general election include Jaymin Patel.
The 193rd Massachusetts General Court is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the state government of Massachusetts,composed of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It first convened in Boston at the Massachusetts State House on January 4,2023,on the last day of the governorship of Charlie Baker and is scheduled to continue until January 7,2025,during the first two years of Governor Maura Healey's first term.
