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Jennifer Flanagan
Jennifer L. Flanagan is a former member of the Massachusetts General Court and the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. EducationLeominster High School; University of Massachusetts Boston, B.A. Political Science; Fitchburg State College, M.S. Mental Health Counseling. Political career Flanagan served as a legislative aide and then chief of staff to then-Leominster State Rep. Mary Jane Simmons.[1] In 2004 Simmons announced she would not seek re-election to the 4th Worcester district due to health concerns,[2] and Flanagan ran for the open seat. Flanagan won the primary and general election, and served two terms as a Massachusetts State Representative. Flanagan served as a Massachusetts State Senator for the Worcester and Middlesex district, which includes her hometown of Leominster. She is a Democrat who served from 2009,[1] to 2017. She first won the State Senate seat in 2008, winning a contested Democratic primary and facing no general election opponent.[3] When running for re-election in 2014 the nomination forms to get Flanagan on the primary ballot were filed with an incomplete address,[4] forcing her to run a write-in campaign during the primary in order to be on the general election ballot.[5] There was no candidate for the seat on either the Republican[6] or Democratic[7] primary ballots. Her general election opponent, Richard Bastien, also got on the general election ballot with a write-in campaign in the primary. In 2017, Flanagan was chosen by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker as his pick for the newly formed Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission.[8] The appointment was notable because she opposed cannabis legalization and is from a different party than the governor. She stepped down in 2021 to become the director of regulatory policy at Vicente Sederberg.[9] References
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