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About Marty

Marty is in her third term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and now serves as the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Education. She represents the 8th Suffolk District, which includes the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and the West End in Boston and Cambridgeport, Area 4 and MIT in Cambridge.

In the 2007-2008 legislative session, Marty was the Vice Chair of the House Ethics Committee and a member of the Education, Judiciary, and Labor & Workforce Development Committees. In addition, she was the House Chair of the Caucus of Women Legislatures, a bi-partisan, bi-cameral group of female legislators who work to enhance the economic status and equality of women and encourage and support women in all levels of government throughout the Commonwealth.

Marty is an attorney in private practice. She has previously worked at the national employment law firm of Littler Mendelson. She advised clients on the full range of laws governing the relationship between employers and their workers, and had a particular focus on preventing illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. She has also worked for Harcourt General, Inc., where she managed the company’s global labor and employment law practice, and for Palmer & Dodge. Using her labor and employment law expertise, Marty has also served as Boston Public Schools’ Assistant Director of Human Resources.

Before being elected, Marty was the Vice President of Development at Jumpstart for Young Children, a national nonprofit based in Boston that pairs college students with preschool children who are at risk of entering school unprepared for success.

Marty has served in leadership roles with the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay and the Women’s Lunch Place, a daytime shelter for poor and homeless women. She also serves on the Board of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. She is a longtime member of the Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committee, which she has served as Chair and as Treasurer.

Marty holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Kennedy Fellow and a Lucius N. Littaur Fellow. Marty also has a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Colgate University, from which she graduated magna cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.