Who is Kimberley Driscoll?

Kimberley Driscoll, a Democratic Party candidate, is contesting the primary elections for the post of Lieutenant Governor in Massachusetts. 

Kimberley Driscoll, 56, is currently serving as the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts. Driscoll was elected mayor for the first time in 2005 and is currently serving her fifth term.

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Who is Kimberley Driscoll? 

Kimberley Driscoll was born in 1966 in Hawaii and they later moved to Massachusetts in 1986. She graduated with a major in political science from Salem State College in 1989 and was also a stand-out athlete in the college women’s basketball team.

Later she also earned a Juris degree at Massachusetts School of Law and spent three years as a real estate and commercial development attorney.

She initiated her career as an intern in Salem’s planning department. Driscoll became Beverly’s community development director. She privately practiced law for a few years and, in 1998, Kimberley was hired by the new City Manager in Chelsea to serve as the city’s Chief Legal Counsel. 

In 1999, Kimberley took the position of Deputy City Manager in Chelsea and won a seat on the Salem City Council representing Ward 5. As a Ward Councilor, Kimberley worked very hard for her South Salem neighbors. 

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Kimberley Driscoll became the first female elected mayor of Salem in 2005 and she assumed office in January 2006 at City Hall. She was again re-elected as the Mayor in 2009 with over 80% of the vote and it is her fifth term as a Mayor. 

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During her tenure, Salem became one of 110 cities and towns in the state of Massachusetts designated as Commonwealth “Green Communities.”

As Mayor, Kimberley Driscoll also serves on the Salem Port Authority board, the Board of Public Library Trustees, and the Board of Trust Fund Commissioners. She is a board member of the Salem Housing Authority and chairs the North Shore Coalition of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. She is a member of the United States Conference of Mayors and serves on the Conference’s Community Development.