Maura A. Hennigan (born 1952) is an American politician who currently serves as the Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court Criminal/Business Division.[1] She is a former member of the Boston City Council and was a mayoral candidate in 2005. From 1987 to 1993, she was known as Maura Hennigan Casey.
Hennigan (second from right) with Mayor Raymond Flynn (center) and several Boston City Council members (ca.1984–1987)
From 1982 through 2005, Hennigan was a member of the Boston City Council. She was first elected in November 1981, the final election when all seats were at-large. She was subsequently re-elected to nine two-year terms as the representative for District 6 (Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury). In November 2001, she successfully ran for an at-large position, and was re-elected in November 2003. She was the first woman to chair Boston's Ways and Means Committee.[3]
In 2006, Hennigan was elected clerk of the Criminal/Business Court of Suffolk County, defeating assistant clerk of court Robert Dello-Russo. She became the ninth elected official to hold this position, as well as the first female official.[3] She was reelected in 2012, 2018, and 2024.[5][7]
Personal life
Hennigan in the 1980s
As of 2007, Hennigan hosted a weekly television show on Boston Neighborhood Network.[3] She is the daughter of former register of probate, state senator, state representative, and Boston School Committee member James W. Hennigan Jr. She has a brother, James W. Hennigan III and a sister Helen. Her grandfather James W. Hennigan Sr. was a state senator and the namesake of the James W. Hennigan School in Jamaica Plain. She is the grandniece of William O. S. Hennigan, a member of the Boston Common Council in 1900.[3]
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