Jon Hecht | |
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Member of the MassachusettsHouseofRepresentatives from the 29th Middlesex district | |
In office January 7, 2009 –January 6, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Rachel Kaprielian |
Succeeded by | Steve Owens |
Personal details | |
Born | Jonathan Hecht Cambridge,Massachusetts,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Lora Sabin |
Children | 4 |
Education | Stanford University (AB) Harvard University (JD) Tufts University (MA) |
Jonathan Hecht is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 29th Middlesex district from 2009 to 2021.
Born in Cambridge,Massachusetts,Hecht spent his youth in Belmont,attending Belmont Public Schools. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Stanford University in 1981,a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1988,and a Master of Arts in law and diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1990. [1] [2] [3]
Hecht was a New York City attorney before working as a program officer for human rights and governance for the Ford Foundation in Beijing from 1990 to 1994. He was a research fellow and law lecturer in East Asian legal studies at Harvard Law School from 1994 to 1998. He co-founded the China Law Center at Yale Law School in 1999 and was its deputy director until 2006. [1] [2]
A former board member of the Arsenal Center for the Arts,Hecht won a seat on the Watertown Town Council in 2005,later serving as chair the council's budget,economic development,and rules committees. [1]
Elected as a Democrat to the 29th Middlesex District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2008,Hecht is Vice Chair of the Elder Affairs Committee and a member of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight and the Joint Committee on Children,Families and Persons with Disabilities. He is a member of the Mental Health Caucus,Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Caucus,and Urban Parks Caucus. [1]
In December 2011,Hecht was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the special election to replace Steven Tolman in the Massachusetts Senate,but lost to state representative Will Brownsberger in the primary election. [4]
Hecht and his wife Lora Sabin,a public health economist at Boston University School of Public Health,reside in Watertown and have four children. [1]
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