Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn officially launches re-election bid with May 13 campaign event
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn will officially launch her re-election campaign to serve the people of Medford for a fourth term.
The following was submitted by Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn:
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn will officially launch her re-election campaign to serve the people of Medford for a fourth term at a special event on Tuesday, May 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Great American Beer Hall.
“I am proud to call this city my home, and serving as mayor has been the greatest honor of my life,” said Lungo-Koehn. “We’ve accomplished so much these past 5 and a half years, but there is still significant progress to be made on our horizon. That is why I am announcing my run for re-election.”
Lungo-Koehn prioritized transparency, accountability, and working hard to ensure that the people of Medford got real results when entering office. In that time, she has transformed City Hall into a more equitable, accountable, and efficient institution, committed to professionally serving the people of Medford.
Recently, the mayor was instrumental in helping to successfully craft an overhauled City Charter, the governing document of Medford that had not been updated in almost four decades. As chair of the School Committee, she has helped oversee the progress of the city’s Massachusetts School Building Authority application process, leading to the eventual construction of a new state-of-the-art Medford Public High School.
And thanks to the mayor’s leadership, the city is now in the process of developing three underused lots in Medford Square, which will dramatically transform the downtown, having recently approved an RFP development bid.
She has tackled tough issues from navigating the COVID-19 pandemic to keep residents and city employees safe and healthy while we worked to reopen, to developing Medford’s first comprehensive multi-year Capital Improvement Plan and launching a community-driven Comprehensive Plan process to create a 30-year vision for our future.
The mayor was a vocal advocate for passing a historic investment in the city’s school district operations and roads and sidewalk infrastructure with the passing of a Prop 2 ½ override in November 2024.
Additionally, during her tenure, Medford finalized a Housing Production Plan and proposed an affordable housing trust so residents can afford to stay in Medford, funded critical city projects, and reworked the city’s budget process, having twice received the Distinguished Budget Award from the Government Finance Officers Association in the process.
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn is a lifelong Medford resident and was sworn into office as the 32nd mayor of Medford on Jan. 5, 2020. She was re-elected to a second term on Nov. 2, 2021, and was sworn into office on Jan. 2, 2022.
Prior to being elected mayor, she served 18 years as a Medford City Councilor – having been first elected when she was only 21 years old.
Lungo-Koehn graduated from Medford High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and Psychology from Endicott College in Beverly, where she graduated Alpha Phi Sigma. She went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from the Massachusetts
School of Law in 2006, and was admitted as an attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that same year.
The mayor opened her own legal practice in Medford in 2009 after working for a Boston law firm. She attributes her drive, determination, and passion for leadership to her parents; her father, Edward, was a local businessman, and her mother, Susan, was a school secretary. From her family, Breanna learned about how the city worked and how important it was to care, work hard, never give up, and always fight for what’s right.
