City Council ▸ Councillors
Every councillor since 1942
89 people have sat on the Cambridge City Council under Plan E. Nine are elected by proportional representation every odd November and seat themselves the following January, and they choose the mayor from among themselves.
Sorted by papers filed. The index measures each councillor against the others on their own council, so a career in the sixties and one in the twenties can be read in the same column: 100 is the median member of that council. Raw counts reflect how much of each era's record survives; the index largely does not. Where this comes from.
| Councillor | Terms | Served | Papers | Index | Roll calls | Against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. Denise Simmons | 13 | 2002–27 | 2,836 | 156 | 9,400 | 62 |
| Sheila Russell | 7 | 1986–99 | 2,477 | 135 | 52 | — |
| Marc C. McGovern | 7 | 2014–27 | 2,227 | 130 | 9,565 | 28 |
| Alfred Vellucci | 17 | 1956–89 | 2,218 | 237 | 1,672 | — |
| Francis Duehay | 14 | 1972–99 | 1,968 | 70 | 1,645 | — |
| Tim Toomey | 6 | 1990–01 | 1,830 | 103 | 45 | — |
| Sumbul Siddiqui | 5 | 2018–27 | 1,650 | 124 | 9,118 | 30 |
| William Walsh | 5 | 1986–95 | 1,561 | 104 | 46 | — |
| Kenneth Reeves | 6 | 1990–01 | 1,546 | 79 | 58 | — |
| Timothy J. Toomey | 10 | 2002–21 | 1,457 | 100 | 2,813 | 50 |
| Alice Wolf | 5 | 1984–93 | 1,409 | 107 | 328 | — |
| Michael Sullivan | 4 | 1994–01 | 1,390 | 188 | 15 | — |
| Paul F. Toner | 2 | 2022–25 | 1,122 | 186 | 6,443 | 75 |
| Alanna Mallon | 3 | 2018–23 | 1,054 | 94 | 4,159 | 23 |
| Quinton Zondervan | 3 | 2018–23 | 1,048 | 94 | 4,217 | 97 |
| Saundra Graham | 9 | 1972–89 | 1,028 | 87 | 1,665 | — |
| Jan Devereux | 2 | 2016–19 | 1,027 | 111 | 961 | 6 |
| Dennis J. Carlone | 5 | 2014–23 | 1,018 | 60 | 4,380 | 42 |
| Thomas Danehy | 11 | 1968–89 | 990 | 80 | 1,665 | — |
| Patricia Nolan | 4 | 2020–27 | 926 | 95 | 8,360 | 50 |
| Leonard Russell | 5 | 1974–85 | 864 | 139 | 1,082 | — |
| Katherine Triantafillou | 3 | 1994–99 | 861 | 136 | 8 | — |
| Anthony Galluccio | 3 | 1996–01 | 747 | 156 | 6 | — |
| Ed Cyr | 2 | 1990–93 | 746 | 75 | 0 | — |
| Daniel Clinton | 6 | 1970–85 | 711 | 114 | 1,116 | — |
| Kathleen Leahy Born | 4 | 1994–01 | 664 | 92 | 13 | — |
| Jonathan Myers | 3 | 1990–95 | 638 | 49 | 17 | — |
| Leland Cheung | 4 | 2010–17 | 625 | 115 | 368 | 3 |
| Craig A. Kelley | 7 | 2006–19 | 609 | 64 | 893 | 16 |
| Henrietta Davis | 9 | 1996–13 | 586 | 140 | 9 | — |
| Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler | 3 | 2020–27 | 549 | 72 | 6,832 | 38 |
| David P. Maher | 8 | 2002–17 | 489 | 91 | 415 | 9 |
| Nadeem A. Mazen | 2 | 2014–17 | 409 | 75 | 428 | 2 |
| Burhan Azeem | 3 | 2022–27 | 363 | 73 | 6,598 | 16 |
| Kevin Crane | 2 | 1978–81 | 358 | 122 | 569 | — |
| Ayesha M. Wilson | 1 | 2024–25 | 338 | 122 | 4,674 | 20 |
| Barbara Ackermann | 5 | 1968–77 | 335 | 123 | 495 | — |
| David Wylie | 4 | 1974–83 | 263 | 53 | 1,028 | — |
| Lawrence Frisoli | 1 | 1978–79 | 175 | 100 | 300 | — |
| David Clem | 1 | 1976–77 | 129 | 100 | 151 | — |
| Mary Ellen Preusser | 1 | 1978–79 | 106 | 61 | 302 | — |
| Henry Owens | 1 | 1972–73 | 103 | 100 | 181 | — |
| Catherine Zusy | 2 | 2024–27 | 94 | 67 | 2,469 | 47 |
| Joan Pickett | 1 | 2024–25 | 92 | 33 | 1,880 | 9 |
| David Maher | 1 | 2000–01 | 91 | 90 | 0 | — |
| Marjorie Decker | 1 | 2000–01 | 74 | 73 | 0 | — |
| Jim Braude | 1 | 2000–01 | 68 | 67 | 0 | — |
| Ed Crane | 13 | 1942–71 | 54 | 107 | 32 | — |
| Michael A. Sullivan | 3 | 2002–07 | 53 | 132 | 0 | — |
| Brian Murphy | 4 | 2002–09 | 47 | 118 | 0 | — |
| Kenneth E. Reeves | 6 | 2002–13 | 40 | 100 | 0 | — |
| Anthony D. Galluccio | 3 | 2002–07 | 37 | 92 | 0 | — |
| Marjorie C. Decker | 6 | 2002–13 | 27 | 68 | 0 | — |
| Thomas Mahoney | 4 | 1964–71 | 26 | 86 | 26 | — |
| Joseph DeGuglielmo | 9 | 1946–63 | 24 | 215 | 8 | — |
| Michael Neville | 3 | 1944–49 | 21 | 217 | 7 | — |
| John D. Lynch | 10 | 1942–61 | 18 | 147 | 12 | — |
| Thomas Coates | 3 | 1964–71 | 13 | 59 | 24 | — |
| Daniel Hayes | 4 | 1962–69 | 11 | 145 | 5 | — |
| John Foley | 5 | 1946–55 | 11 | 75 | 8 | — |
| Edward Sullivan | 5 | 1950–59 | 10 | 450 | 4 | — |
| Hyman Pill | 8 | 1942–57 | 10 | 78 | 12 | — |
| Francis Sennott | 4 | 1942–53 | 8 | 167 | 3 | — |
| Michael Sullivan | 4 | 1942–49 | 8 | 92 | 6 | — |
| James Casey | 1 | 1946–47 | 7 | 175 | 4 | — |
| Thomas McNamara | 7 | 1942–61 | 6 | 69 | 7 | — |
| Cornelia Wheeler | 5 | 1958–69 | 5 | 50 | 4 | — |
| Timothy R. Flaherty | 1 | 2026–27 | 5 | 250 | 328 | 10 |
| Bernard Goldberg | 4 | 1962–69 | 4 | 65 | 5 | — |
| James Cassidy | 1 | 1944–45 | 4 | 200 | 1 | — |
| Pearl Wise | 4 | 1956–63 | 4 | 50 | 1 | — |
| Andrew Trodden | 3 | 1960–65 | 3 | 300 | 2 | — |
| Charles Watson | 3 | 1954–59 | 3 | 200 | 0 | — |
| Ayah A. Al-Zubi | 1 | 2026–27 | 2 | 100 | 266 | 3 |
| Marcus Morton | 3 | 1942–55 | 2 | 50 | 2 | — |
| Chester Higley | 2 | 1950–53 | 1 | 100 | 2 | — |
| Gaspard d'Andelot Belin | 1 | 1962–63 | 1 | 100 | 1 | — |
| John Corcoran | 2 | 1942–45 | 1 | 50 | 2 | — |
| W. Donnison Swan | 4 | 1946–53 | 1 | 0 | 10 | — |
| William Hogan | 1 | 1942–43 | 1 | 100 | 0 | — |
| David Sullivan | 5 | 1980–89 | — | not enough of the record | 0 | — |
| Dennis A. Benzan | 1 | 2014–15 | 0 | not enough of the record | 0 | — |
| Larry Ward | 1 | 2008–09 | 0 | not enough of the record | 0 | — |
| Minka vanBeuzekom | 1 | 2012–13 | 0 | not enough of the record | 0 | — |
| Robert Moncrieff | 2 | 1970–73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Russell Gerould | 1 | 1944–45 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Sam Seidel | 2 | 2008–11 | 0 | not enough of the record | 0 | — |
| Walter Sullivan | 17 | 1960–93 | — | 299 | 892 | — |
| William Maher | 1 | 1966–67 | 0 | not enough of the record | 1 | — |