Terrence Kennedy represents District 6. According to the Secretary of State Office, He was first elected in 2000, and has been re-elected every term since then.  His first election was possibly his toughest until 2020.  In that initial election, he narrowly won the party primary by 80 votes (21,659 to 21,579, with 15,730 blanks), and went on to win 55 percent to of the vote in the general election against three candidates.

Of the seven subsequent elections he was unopposed in the primary three times and had one or two primary opponents the other four.  In 2020, he defeated Helina Fontes by 55-45 percent, but in all other contested primaries he has received between 65 and 95 percent of the votes.  Even th instances in which he has faced a republican opponent, he has garnered between 70 and 98 percent of the vote (achieving the latter in three of those final elections). His current term ends in 2027.

Kennedy, holds an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts, Boston (1980), and a JD in law from Boston College School of Law (1983).  Currently an attorney in private practice, he has served as an Assistant District Attorney in both the Norfolk and Middlesex County District Attorney offices, as well as a Law Clerk in the Suffolk County Juvenile Court.  He has coached youth athletics and been a member of the Lynn Board of Appeals.  Kennedy is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.