Michael A. Sullivan is the Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and served two terms as mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Michael is a member of the Sullivan family of Cambridge. He is the third generation in his family to be the mayor of Cambridge following his father and grandfather. He is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School. He has also served as Assistant Clerk Magistrate pro tem, Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County, and Assistant Attorney General. He resigned his post as Cambridge City Councillor, effective August 17, 2007 and was replaced by David Maher on September 5.
In becoming Clerk of Courts, Michael Sullivan follows in the footsteps of his uncle Edward J. Sullivan who held the post from 1958 to 2006, and was also a former mayor of Cambridge.
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