Denise Simmons

City Councillor, Cambridge

**Denise Simmons ** is a City Councillor for Cambridge, MA. E. Denise Simmons, a lifelong resident of Cambridge, is serving on the Cambridge City Council, and has served two terms as Mayor of Cambridge. Denise has spent the past three decades working to better her community – first as the Executive Director of the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee in the 1980s, then as a member of the Cambridge School Committee in the 1990s, and since 2002, as a member of the Cambridge City Council. In 2008, Denise drew national attention when she became the nation's first Black, openly lesbian mayor (and the first Black female mayor in Massachusetts).