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Has represented 32nd Middlesex in Mass. House since 2020, which includes Melrose, parts of Malden & Wakefield
By Steve Freker
A candidate — and familiar face — has emerged for the soon-to-be-open Fifth District state Senate seat. State Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian, D-Melrose, 32nd Middlesex, announced Wednesday she is running for State Senate for the 5th Middlesex District.
The announcement came just a day after six-term state Sen. Jason Lewis, D-5th Middlesex told constituents and the media — via a letter on his website — he would not be seeking reelection to a seventh term this fall. That means there will be an open State Senate seat for the first time in over a decade in this year’s September Primary and November General Elections, or, since Sen. Lewis was first elected in 2014.
Rep. Lipper-Garabedian’s 32nd Middlesex District includes the city of Melrose, Ward 5 Precincts 2 and 3A in Malden and Precincts 4, 5 and 6 in the town of Wakefield. Rep. Lipper-Garabedian, an education attorney and former educator, was first elected in a special election on March 3, 2020, to replace Paul Brodeur, who became the Mayor of Melrose. She was reelected in both the 2022 and 2024 state elections. Prior to that, she served as a Melrose City Councilor At-Large — first elected in 2017. She also worked as the Chief Legal Counsel at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education and as a public middle school teacher.
“Today, I am officially declaring my candidacy for State Senate for the 5th Middlesex District,” Lipper-Garabedian told the Advocate in a press release on Wednesday. “Senator Lewis has been an incredible leader throughout his time in the state legislature, ushering through historic legislation that meaningfully benefits families across the Commonwealth.”
“Over the last six years, as State Representative, I have been privileged to partner with him to deliver resources and responsive constituent services to our communities while collaborating on transformative legislation that makes Massachusetts a national leader on so many of the issues about which we care deeply,” she added.
“We are at a defining moment in our nation’s history, one that demands bold, effective leadership in a state that serves as a beacon of hope for a fractured nation,” Rep. Lipper-Garabedian stated. “I come to this moment as someone who believes passionately in the mandate of government to make life better for individuals and families, someone who listens carefully and works hard for her constituents, and someone whose experience in state and local government ensures that she will get things done for the 5th Middlesex District.”
The 5th Middlesex District includes the cities of Malden and Melrose and the towns of Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield and Winchester.
