Nancy Achin Sullivan

Nancy Achin Sullivan
Sullivan in 1991
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
from the 1st Middlesex district
In office
January 2, 1991 – January 5, 1993
Personal details
Born(1959-01-20)January 20, 1959
Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedFebruary 25, 2022(2022-02-25) (aged 63)
Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s)
Arthur Sullivan
(m. 1984)

Henry Audesse
(m. 1997; died 2015)

David Kellogg
(m. 2018)

Nancy Elaine Achin Sullivan (January 20, 1959 – February 25, 2022) was an American Republican politician from Lowell, Massachusetts. She represented the 1st Middlesex district in the Massachusetts Senate from 1991 to 1993 and was a Democrat.[1] She retired after a single term because she was undergoing chemotherapy to treat breast cancer.[2]

Sullivan was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on January 20, 1959.[3] A four-time cancer survivor, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine from 1999 until 2008.[4] Sullivan went to the Academy of Notre Dame in Lowell, Massachusetts and to Radcliffe College. She died in Andover, Massachusetts, on February 25, 2022, at the age of 63.[5]

  1. ^ "History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923 – 2015" (PDF). Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  2. ^ "Lowell GOP senator rules out reelection". Boston Globe. April 29, 1992. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  3. ^ "History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature: 1923-present (As of August 2012)" (PDF). Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. August 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  4. ^ "Ex-state senator, Lowell native leaving state medical board". Lowell Sun. July 21, 2008. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  5. ^ "Nancy E. Achin". Lowell Sun. March 2, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2022.