Senator Anthony Petruccelli has served as state Senator for the First Suffolk Middlesex District since July 2007. His district includes Beacon Hill, Cambridge, East Boston, North End, Revere and Winthrop. He currently serves as the Senate Chair on the Joint Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

Before being elected to the Senate, he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, winning the vacant seat for the First Suffolk District in a special election in June of 1999. During his tenure in the House, then Representative Petruccelli served as the Chair on the Joint Committee on Election Laws and the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business. Prior to becoming a member of the House of Representatives, Anthony served as a neighborhood liaison to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. He is a graduate of both Boston College High School and the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.

He currently resides in East Boston with his wife, Alessandra, children, Alexa and Anthony and dog, Madison.