Rep. James Eldridge, State Representative, 37th Middlesex District, MA

Jamie is a life-long resident of Acton, Massachusetts and won his bid for the State Senate in a land-slide victory in November, 2008.  Previously he served three terms as State Representative for the 37^th Middlesex district. His major platform has been reform in the House of Representatives and advocating for education, health care, and economic issues.  As a proponent of the CI technology, Senator Eldridge has co-authored a docket proposing mandatory insurance coverage for CI surgery for children in Massachusetts.

Senator Eldridge is a charter board member of the Gift of Hearing Foundation.  Prior to serving as a state representative, Mr. Eldridge worked with the Merrimack Valley Legal Services, a non-profit organization providing free legal services to the poor and elderly.  He has also worked with the law firm of Hale & Dorr of Boston where he organized volunteer paralegal services for permanent residents to become U.S. citizens.

Sen. Eldridge received a B.A. degree in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1995.  He is also a 2000 graduate of the Boston College Law School where his studies focused on Community Economic Development  (CED) law.