City Council ▸ Councillors

Every councillor since 1942

84 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
Timothy J. Toomey	16	1990–21	3,2895 terms unmeasured	102	6,564	1304,737 rated
Walter Sullivan	17	1960–93	3,2196 terms unmeasured	299	2,884	1171,587 rated
E. Denise Simmons	13	2002–27	2,8365 terms unmeasured	156	11,268	15010,112 rated
Sheila Russell	7	1986–99	2,474	135	2,390	481,494 rated
Marc C. McGovern	7	2014–27	2,227	130	10,346	6710,171 rated
Alfred Vellucci	17	1956–89	2,2161 term unmeasured	237	2,4812 terms unmeasured	381,395 rated
Francis Duehay	14	1972–99	1,970	71	4,139	682,508 rated
Sumbul Siddiqui	5	2018–27	1,650	124	9,563	759,563 rated
Kenneth E. Reeves	12	1990–13	1,5865 terms unmeasured	82	3,083	161,434 rated
William Walsh	5	1986–95	1,563	104	1,589	62920 rated
Michael A. Sullivan	7	1994–07	1,4442 terms unmeasured	178	1,796	151,012 rated
Alice Wolf	5	1984–93	1,409	109	1,695	26986 rated
Paul F. Toner	2	2022–25	1,122	186	6,509	1236,509 rated
Alanna Mallon	3	2018–23	1,054	94	4,860	634,860 rated
Quinton Zondervan	3	2018–23	1,048	94	4,916	2194,916 rated
Jan Devereux	2	2016–19	1,027	111	1,247	171,247 rated
Saundra Graham	9	1972–89	1,027	87	2,175	661,129 rated
Dennis J. Carlone	5	2014–23	1,018	60	5,345	1015,170 rated
Thomas Danehy	11	1968–89	989	80	2,135	681,060 rated
Patricia Nolan	4	2020–27	926	95	8,683	1228,683 rated
Anthony D. Galluccio	7	1994–07	8872 terms unmeasured	119	1,623	15878 rated
Leonard Russell	5	1974–85	863	142	1,079	31649 rated
Katherine Triantafillou	3	1994–99	861	137	963	18682 rated
Ed Cyr	2	1990–93	744	75	748	9446 rated
Daniel Clinton	6	1970–85	712	116	1,237	41566 rated
Kathleen Leahy Born	4	1994–01	663	91	1,231	4866 rated
Jonathan Myers	3	1990–95	638	49	1,134	15722 rated
Leland Cheung	4	2010–17	6252 terms unmeasured	115	1,053	9494 rated
Craig A. Kelley	7	2006–19	6094 terms unmeasured	64	2,076	651,186 rated
Henrietta Davis	9	1996–13	5855 terms unmeasured	140	1,985	2746 rated
David P. Maher	9	2000–17	5805 terms unmeasured	91	1,973	16882 rated
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler	3	2020–27	549	72	6,740	666,740 rated
Nadeem A. Mazen	2	2014–17	409	75	743	8568 rated
Burhan Azeem	3	2022–27	363	73	6,792	396,792 rated
Kevin Crane	2	1978–81	359	122	544	55454 rated
Ayesha M. Wilson	1	2024–25	338	122	4,336	264,336 rated
Barbara Ackermann	5	1968–77	329	123	678	22179 rated
David Wylie	4	1974–83	263	53	1,062	32708 rated
Lawrence Frisoli	1	1978–79	175	100	244	31174 rated
David Clem	1	1976–77	130	100	158	881 rated
Mary Ellen Preusser	1	1978–79	105	60	306	15236 rated
Henry Owens	1	1972–73	104	100	242	030 rated
Marjorie C. Decker	7	2000–13	1015 terms unmeasured	70	1,390	0323 rated
Catherine Zusy	2	2024–27	94	67	2,616	612,616 rated
Joan Pickett	1	2024–25	92	33	1,596	91,596 rated
Jim Braude	1	2000–01	68	67	264	0178 rated
Ed Crane	13	1942–71	551 term unmeasured	93	413 terms unmeasured	04 rated
Brian Murphy	4	2002–09	473 terms unmeasured	118	676	0145 rated
Thomas Mahoney	4	1964–71	261 term unmeasured	86	31	01 rated
Alfred LaRosa	1	1984–85	24	18	68	145 rated
Joseph DeGuglielmo	9	1946–63	24	179	142 terms unmeasured	14 rated
Michael Neville	3	1944–49	21	217	9	01 rated
John D. Lynch	10	1942–61	18	155	163 terms unmeasured	03 rated
Thomas Coates	3	1964–71	131 term unmeasured	59	27	–0 rated
Daniel Hayes	4	1962–69	111 term unmeasured	145	6	01 rated
John Foley	5	1946–55	11	156	10	02 rated
Edward Sullivan	5	1950–59	10	300	42 terms unmeasured	11 rated
Hyman Pill	8	1942–57	10	95	122 terms unmeasured	02 rated
Francis Sennott	4	1942–53	8	125	31 term unmeasured	–0 rated
Michael Sullivan	4	1942–49	8	92	91 term unmeasured	01 rated
James Casey	1	1946–47	7	175	5	–0 rated
Thomas McNamara	8	1942–61	7	95	133 terms unmeasured	12 rated
Cornelia Wheeler	5	1958–69	51 term unmeasured	50	91 term unmeasured	01 rated
Timothy R. Flaherty	1	2026–27	5	250	416	17416 rated
Bernard Goldberg	4	1962–69	41 term unmeasured	65	6	01 rated
James Cassidy	1	1944–45	4	200	2	–0 rated
Pearl Wise	4	1956–63	4	50	42 terms unmeasured	01 rated
Andrew Trodden	3	1960–65	31 term unmeasured	300	5	01 rated
Charles Watson	3	1954–59	3	200	12 terms unmeasured	01 rated
Ayah A. Al-Zubi	1	2026–27	2	100	364	8364 rated
Marcus Morton	3	1942–55	2	50	31 term unmeasured	01 rated
Chester Higley	2	1950–53	1	50	3	–0 rated
Gaspard d'Andelot Belin	1	1962–63	1	100	1	01 rated
John Corcoran	2	1942–45	1	50	21 term unmeasured	–0 rated
Robert Moncrieff	2	1970–73	1	0	258	527 rated
W. Donnison Swan	4	1946–53	1	50	10	11 rated
William Hogan	1	1942–43	1	100	01 term unmeasured	–0 rated
David Sullivan	5	1980–89	05 terms unmeasured	not enough of the record	1,346	26959 rated
Dennis A. Benzan	1	2014–15	0	not enough of the record	182	07 rated
Larry Ward	1	2008–09	01 term unmeasured	not enough of the record	66	–0 rated
Minka vanBeuzekom	1	2012–13	01 term unmeasured	not enough of the record	179	–0 rated
Russell Gerould	1	1944–45	0	0	2	–0 rated
Sam Seidel	2	2008–11	02 terms unmeasured	not enough of the record	368	01 rated
William Maher	1	1966–67	0	not enough of the record	1	–0 rated