Liz Breadon

Elizabeth A. "Liz" Breadon is a Democratic member of the Boston City Council who serves the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods (District 9) of Boston, Massachusetts. She was the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to the Boston City Council.

Early life and education Breadon grew up in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, during The Troubles. She attended Ulster University to study physical therapy. Breadon later attended the defunct Teleosis Homeopathic School in Newton, Massachusetts to study homeopathy.

Early career Breadon immigrated to Boston in 1995 from 2011 to 2020, where she claimed to be board certified in Classical Homeopathy, a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.

City Council After coming in second in a seven-way primary to fill the District 9 seat of retiring incumbent Mark Ciommo, Breadon won the 2019 general municipal election with 58.5% of the vote. She sponsored the original "Unity Map" that arose from the redistricting process and passed the city council despite opposition from four white politically moderate Irish American members of the City Council, including Council President Ed Flynn, whose district was one of two that were at the center of the controversy surrounding the map.The map's controversy surrounded changes district 6 and district 7's boundaries. The map was passed into law in November 2022 after being signed by Mayor Michelle Wu. However, the map was ultimately prohibited by preliminary injunction from being used in the 2023 Boston City Council election after a ruling by Federal Judge Patti Saris. After the judicial ruling, City Council President Flynn tasked Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune, head of the Boston City Council's Civil Rights Committee, to oversee the process of drawing a map to be used in the 2023 Boston City Council election instead of Breadon. The resulting map was adopted by the council in a 10–2 vote and signed into law by Mayor Wu.

In June 2023, Breadon was the only white member of the City Council to vote in support of a budget that the City Council approved 7–5. The six other votes in support came from councilors who are persons of color, and all of the votes against the budget came from the remaining white city councilors. Mayor Wu thereafter vetoed a number of amendments included in the budget.

Fourth term and council presidency (2026–present) Breadon was re-elected to a fourth term in 2025.

On January 5, 2026, Breadon was voted by the council to serve as its president for the next two years, beating-out Brian Worrell in a 7–6 vote. (Voting for Breadon were: Breadon, Gabriela Coletta Zapata, Sharon Durkan, Ruthzee Louijeune, Enrique Pepen, Henry Santana, Benjamin WeberVoting for Worrell were: Worrell, Miniard Culpepper, John Fitzgerald, Ed Flynn, Julia Mejia, Erin Murphy After the vote, various councilors accused one another of lacking transparency in how they went about the council president election process.)

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Craig R. Cashman

Brandon David Bowser

Daniel J. Daly

Lee Nave Jr.

Jonathan Lamar Allen

Amanda Gail Smart

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