Alice K Wolf was an Austrian-born American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1996 to 2013, representing the 25th Middlesex District.
23 Facts About Alice Wolf
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On March 22,2012, Wolf announced that she would not seek re-election.
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Alice Wolf previously served on the Cambridge, Massachusetts School Committee and Cambridge City Council, and as Mayor of Cambridge for one year, from 1990 to 1991.
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Alice Wolf was born to a Jewish family in 1933 in Vienna, Austria.
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Alice Wolf attended the Baldwin Early Learning Center in Brighton, Massachusetts and high school at Boston Girls Latin School, which is Boston Latin Academy in Boston.
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Alice Wolf graduated from Simmons College in Boston, where she graduated in 1955 with a degree in Experimental Psychology.
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Alice Wolf later earned a master's degree in public administration at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.
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Alice Wolf's career started at the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she conducted perceptual research by programming the Memory Test Computer to display dot patterns to human subjects.
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On November 6,1973, Alice Wolf started her career in public service by winning an election to join the Cambridge School Committee, a position she held from January 1974 to January 1982.
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Alice Wolf ran for the Council in 1981, but narrowly missed a win in a crowded field of 25 candidates.
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Alice Wolf led the city initiative to create a domestic partners ordinance, and establish the commission to enforce the ordinance.
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Alice Wolf developed Sister City relationships, a model for international cooperation at the grassroots level, with San Jose Las Flores, Chalatenango, El Salvador and Yerevan, Armenia.
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Alice Wolf led in the creation of the Cambridge Kids Council, which is dedicated to developing policy recommendations and programs aimed at improving the quality of life for children, youth and families in Cambridge.
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Alice Wolf served as the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts from January 1990 to January 1992.
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Alice Wolf was elected five times to the Council, serving from 1984 through 1994.
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Alice Wolf said she recognized that squatting in the apartments was "an illegal action," but supported the squatters and visited them in the apartments.
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Alice Wolf led Cambridge in its opposition to Scheme Z, the widely-criticized proposed interchange for the planned Big Dig highway project.
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Alice Wolf successfully worked to get Cambridge to file a lawsuit in order to stop this aspect of the plan from going forward.
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Alice Wolf was reelected in subsequent terms and served in the Massachusetts legislature for 16 years.
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Alice Wolf served as the House Chair of the Committee on Elder Affairs and on the Women's Legislative Caucus.
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Alice Wolf worked on many progressive issues and on countless bills.
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Alice Wolf served as the House Chair of the Committee on Elder Affairs and of the Women's Legislative Caucus.
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Alice Wolf died after a short battle with leukemia at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 26,2023, at the age of 89.