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| | name = Jamie Eldridge | |||
| | residence = Acton, Massachusetts | |||
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| | title = State Representative of 37th Middlesex district | |||
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| | term = January, 2003 - present | |||
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| | website = www.jamieforcongress.com | |||
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| '''Jamie Eldridge''' is the ] ] from the Thirty-seventh Middlesex district, and a ]. Jamie is currently serving his third term in the ] and sits on the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business, the Joint Committee on Election Laws, and the Joint Committee on Public Service. He was one of the first elected officials to endorse ] for Governor. Jamie is an ] native and the son of a public school kindergarten teacher and electrical engineer. | |||
| ==Education== | |||
| Jamie attended the Acton public schools and graduated from ] in 1991. He was one of the original founders of the school’s community service group, Acton Boxborough Community Outreach. Jamie attended college at ] in Baltimore, MD majoring in Political Science. While studying at Johns Hopkins and volunteering in the '92 Presidential election he was elected student body President. During Jamie's time at Johns Hopkins he interned for Congressman ] (D-Lowell). He started studies at ] in 1997 and graduated in 2000. | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| In his second year of law school Jamie managed then-State Representative Pam Resor’s 1998 successful re-election campaign. During this campaign he worked on the historic ] bill, which provides public financing to political candidates willing to accept campaign spending limits and the prohibition of accepting of special interest and large financial contributions. After the bill passed by voter referendum Jamie was appointed as the Middlesex-Worcester Senate District Coordinator. | |||
| In the same year he also became Vice-president of the re-energized Acton Conservation Trust. He completed a summer internship as a student Prosecutor for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office. He worked as a prosecutor in the towns of Natick and Framingham, and assisted on the District Attorney’s Community-Based Justice (CBJ) program in the city of Lowell. In his final year of Law School Jamie was elected chair of the Acton Democratic Town Committee. | |||
| Jamie worked for the Merrimack Valley Legal Services in Lowell, a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to the poor and the elderly. He worked as a public interest lawyer in the fields of housing, Social Security disability, and unemployment law. | |||
| He received the National Association for Public Interest Law (NAPIL) Equal Justice Fellowship; a national two-year fellowship that allows recent law graduates to create their dream public interest project to help the less fortunate. The fellowship allowed Jamie to create the Community Development Justice Project (CDJP), which allowed him to practice Community Economic Development (CED) law in Lowell, to help build affordable housing, start new businesses, and create non-profits to address local problems. Unfortunately, Jamie had to leave his fellowship early to devote his full energies to run for the 37th Middlesex District open seat. | |||
| Jamie Eldridge, an Acton native, was elected to serve as ] on November 5th, 2002. He was first sworn in as State Representative on January 1st, 2003, when he cast his first vote in the Speaker of the House election for Rep. ] over Rep. ]. The district includes the towns of ] (precincts 3, 4, & 5), ] , ], ] (precinct 1), ], and ]. As a result of the represented towns in this new district, Rep. Eldridge represents many of the residents of the ] community, a former U.S. military base now run by the state. Jamie is currently a democratic candidate for the ] in the ]. ] is vacating this seat. | |||
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