Jared C. Nicholson

Nicholson was born on December 3, 1985, in Framingham, Massachusetts to Stephen and Lindsay Nicholson.[1] He attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, graduating in 2004.[2] He went on to graduate from Princeton University summa cum laude in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 2008.[3] He earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2014,[3] where he was Executive Director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.[4] Nicholson is bilingual in English and Spanish.[2]

Nicholson received the Skadden Fellowship out of Harvard Law School, and designed, launched, and led a new community economic development practice in Lynn, Massachusetts.[3] Here he represented underserved communities in entrepreneurial and small business legal matters.[5] He also helped make recommendations adopted by the Lynn City Council to support economic development in the city.[6] In 2016 he was elected to the Lynn School Committee, serving three two year terms.[7] During that time he helped develop a new initiative for students across the district to learn job skills after school,[8] and founded the city's wrestling team.[9] Since 2016, Nicholson, who wrestled at Princeton, has hosted a beach wrestling tournament every summer to support Lynn wrestling.[10] Prior to being elected Mayor, Nicholson worked as a business lawyer for startups at Latham & Watkins[11] and later as a law professor at Northeastern University, where he worked with and researched small businesses.[12]

Nicholson lives in Lynn with his wife, Katherine, and their sons, Henry and Benjamin.[15]