Jim Henderson

Mr. Henderson is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College where presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, was one of his senior honors thesis advisers. Cornel West, Harvard and Princeton professor, was his classmate and someone with whom he had wonderful late-night debates about matters which now make Cornel a national treasure. Between college and law school, he was a Research Assistant at Harvard’s Kennedy Institute of Politics and a paralegal at WGBH. He’s a cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School. After law school, he moved to Connecticut where he was an in-house counsel to two Fortune 120 companies. He also was an Adjunct Professor in Business Law for seven years at Quinnipiac College School of Law.

Jim is an Everett resident and lives a few blocks away from CHA Everett Hospital. He served on the Everett Planning Board and the School Building Commission. He also applied his law skills as Human Resources Director for three Everett mayor’s, including current Mayor Carlo DeMaria. His HR office administered the City’s Health Insurance Benefits for City of Everett workers, teachers, firefighters, police officers and retirees.

He left the City of Everett HR to become Employee Engagement Manager for MassDOT and the MBTA, where improving operational processes and change management, customer service and diversity training were important aspects of his duties. Afterward, he became HR Director for the Massachusetts Department of Capital Assets Management & Maintenance. Jim is now principal in an Everett-based sole proprietorship which provides business law advice to select clients and non-legal consulting advice in general.