David M. Torrisi is an American attorney and politician who represents the 14th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...

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Torrisi graduated from the University of Vermont in 1990 and found work as a child care counselor. He later served as an aide to Congressman Marty Meehan

Marty Meehan

Martin Thomas "Marty" Meehan is an American attorney and politician from the state of Massachusetts. He is the current Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a position he assumed on July 1, 2007...

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From 1996–1999, Torrisi served as a member of the North Andover

North Andover, Massachusetts

North Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. North Andover is the home of Merrimack College, a private, Catholic four-year institution ....

 Board of Selectman. In 1998 he defeated incumbent Donna Cuomo

Donna Cuomo

Donna Fournier Cuomo is an American politician who represented the 14th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993–1999. She later served as the deputy director of the Department of Public Safety's programs division.Cuomo was briefly a Republican candidate for...

in the general election.

Torrisi is the current House Chairman of the Joint Committee on Higher Education.