Donna Fournier Cuomo (born March 19, 1947, in

Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 89,143. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and Nort ...

) is an American politician who represented the 14th Essex district in the

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...

from 1993 to 1999. She later served as the deputy director of the Department of Public Safety's programs division. Cuomo was briefly a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

. She announced her candidacy on April 2, 2002 and dropped out of the race the next day.

Personal life

Cuomo is the sister of Joseph Fournier, who was murdered by

Willie Horton William R. Horton (born August 12, 1951), commonly referred to as "Willie Horton", is an American convicted felon who became notorious for committing violent crimes while on furlough from prison, where he was serving a life sentence without the ...

and two other men in 1974. She appeared in an anti-

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history a ...

ad during the 1988 presidential election. Cuomo escaped from the

World Trade Center World Trade Centers are sites recognized by the World Trade Centers Association. World Trade Center may refer to: Buildings * List of World Trade Centers * World Trade Center (2001–present), a building complex that includes five skyscrapers, a ...

during the

September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercia ...

References

1947 births Living people Politicians from Lawrence, Massachusetts Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives University of Massachusetts Lowell alumni Salem State University alumni Women state legislators in Massachusetts Survivors of the September 11 attacks 20th-century American women 21st-century American women politicians {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub