Senator Susan Fargo represents the Third Middlesex District, which comprises the communities of Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston and parts of Lexington and Sudbury.
Currently, Senator Fargo serves as Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health and of the Council of Racial and Health Disparities. She is the Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee of Elder Affairs. The Senator also serves on the Joint Committee on Housing, the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and the Disabled and the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. Senator Fargo recently served as the Senate Chair of the Women’s Legislative Caucus.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University and has two graduate degrees from Harvard University: a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Graduate School of Education, and a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Senator Fargo is a former Massachusetts public school teacher and editor of the Lincoln Journal. She is also a former Lincoln Selectman and was elected to serve as the Chair for two terms. She was first elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1996.
Governor Deval Patrick recently signed into law the School Nutrition bill, sponsored by Senator Fargo to curb the epidemic of child obesity. She has also authored several pieces of groundbreaking legislation, including the Buffer Zone, a first-in-the-nation bill that protects medical staff and patients at family planning facilities and a comprehensive bill that combats invasive weeds in our waterways while saving the Commonwealth millions of dollars. She was the lead sponsor of the Statewide Workplace Smoking Ban. Her Children and Family Protection Act, the toughest pesticide law in the nation, passed the legislature unanimously. Senator Fargo was also a coauthor of the popular Senior Circuit Breaker tax credit, which provides up to a $970 per year state tax credit for qualified seniors. She championed the passage of $24 million for the state’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, fought for affordable housing and long term care for seniors in Massachusetts, and led the fight to repeal the pharmacy drug tax and the nursing home bed tax.
Contact Information:
Phone: (617)-722-1572
Room 504, State House
Boston, MA 02133
