Richard T. Moore
State Senator
Massachusetts
Senator Richard T. Moore was first elected to the Massachusetts Senate on April 23, 1996. The Senator currently serves as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and is a member of the Senate Committee on Bills in Third Reading, the Senate Committee on Post-Audit and Oversight, the Joint Committee on Higher Education, and the Joint committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets.
As Senate Chair of the Health Care Committee from 1999 to 2005, and now the Health Care Financing Committee, the Senator has been a leading advocate of such critical issues as nurse staffing, school based health, prescription drugs for seniors and the disabled, the reduction of medical errors, reform of managed care to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, and bioterrorism.
Senator Moore is also the Immediate Past President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration. He has held many senior level academic administrative positions as well as teaching and lecturing at various colleges and universities.
He is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and holds a Masters Degree in Student Personnel Administration from Colgate University. He has completed additional graduate level courses at Clark and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Senator Moore is married to Joanne.