Mayor Clare Higgins

City voters re-elected Mayor Clare Higgins to 6th term.

Thank you everyone.

Clare Higgins began serving the citizens of Northampton as Mayor in January, 2000 and has been reelected by the voters four times.

Prior to taking office as Mayor, Clare served as City Councilor At Large from 1994 through 1999 and was President of the Council during 1998-99.

Clare moved from Brooklyn, New York to Northampton in 1977 and began working in human services, first as a day care teacher at the Hampshire Community Action Commission. While in that position, she became a union representative for day care and human service workers in western Massachusetts. She then worked as a Program Director for Sojourn, Inc. and later returned to HCAC, first as Director of a child care center and later as overall Program Director for all of HCAC’s child care programs.

Clare is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, with a B.A. in education and public policy.

During her time as Mayor, she has been been elected President and Vice-President of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, and was chosen by her colleagues to serve as President of the Massachusetts Mayors Association.