Kevin F. Coughlin represents Quincy’s Ward Three, a representative district reflective of the city’s great social and economic diversity spanning an area from the banks of the Neponset River Estuary to the heights of Quarry Street and the South Quincy neighborhoods beyond. Ward Three includes the traditional neighborhoods of Montclair, Wollaston Hill, Lakin Square, Mount Ararat, Hospital Hill, and Fort Square as well as the more recently constructed Highpoint residential development. Within the Ward Three boundaries are four elementary schools, Montclair, Wollaston, Bernazzani, and Lincoln Hancock as well as the President’s Golf Course Recreational Facility and Furnace Brook Golf Course.

First elected in November 2001, Kevin Coughlin has twice been reelected and during his tenure he has assumed key leadership positions as Chairman of the Ordinance, Finance, and Oversight Committees as well as Education, Park and Recreation and Senior Citizen Committees. In addition to his highly responsive role as an ombudsman, he has been a proactive legislator crafting numerous pieces of legislation designed to protect the integrity of Quincy’s densely populated neighborhoods and address fundamental quality of life concerns. He authored the city’s first cutting edge Wireless Communication’s Ordinance, a comprehensive Neighborhood Property Preservation (Anti-blight) Ordinance, a Home Rule Petition to create the first of its’ kind Senior Citizen Safety Zones, as well as legislative initiatives to address neighborhood parking concerns, to combat graffiti, to enhance recycling, protect and expand our urban forest, and bring focus and attention to other matters of environmental concern.

Kevin Coughlin also serves on additional subcommittees some of which he helped create, including the Fire Study Committee where he has been a leading advocate of Public safety; the Zoning Committee created to evaluate and make recommendations regarding potential zoning changes in light of neighborhood development concerns; and the Environment and Health/ QEN Climate Action Committee wherein he has joined with environmental leaders in the community seeking to initiate local action to address climate change.

He has brought to bear the benefit of nearly 30 years of distinguished service in state government in creatively confronting the challenges of local governance. He has been civically engaged as former chairman of the Family Commission/Family Council, as a long-term member and a past president of the Montclair/Wollaston Neighborhood Association, the Quincy Lions Club, The Greater Quincy Knights of Columbus, and The Sacred Heart Parish Council. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Boston University Alumni Association. Thrice nominated for the Quincy Sun Citizen of the Year, he received the Impact Quincy Community Hero Award in 1997, The Boston Parent’s Paper Public Friend Family Advocate of the Year Award in 1998, was inducted into the Collegium of Distinguished Alumni at Boston University in 2000, was honored for his commitment to public safety by the Quincy Firefighters and inducted as an Honorary Firefighter in February 2007, and received the WORK Inc. Public Service award in May 2007 for his support of this program which serves the physically and mentally challenged.

Raised in Quincy since birth, Kevin Coughlin is a graduate of Boston College High School and Boston University. He is an Assistant Chief Probation Officer with the Massachusetts Trial Court and is married to Domenica M. Coughlin. They have three children; Maria, James, and Matthew.