BU Law Announces
2008 Commencement Speaker,
Congresswoman
Niki Tsongas (’88)
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About Representative Tsongas
Niki Tsongas is currently serving her first term as a member of the United States House of Representatives for the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts. She is the first woman to be elected to Congress from the state of Massachusetts in 25 years. The Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts includes the old industrial cities of Haverhill, Methuen, Lawrence and Lowell in the Merrimack Valley as well as the Boston suburbs of Concord, Acton, Wayland and Sudbury.
Representative Tsongas was elected in a special election on October 16, 2007 to succeed Marty Meehan, who resigned to become the chancellor of UMass-Lowell. She currently serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Budget Committee. Before her election to Congress, Representative Tsongas served as the dean of External Affairs at Middlesex Community College, the largest community college in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Growing up in a military family, she has lived across the United States, post-war Germany, and she graduated from an American high school in Japan. Congresswoman Tsongas earned her B.A. from Smith College and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law.