At Falmouth Representative Town Meeting, elected members and any officials granted voting rights decide town business.
Body Overview
- Government Level: Municipal
- Jurisdiction: Town of Falmouth
- Status: Current
- Authorized Seats: 243
- Current Vacancies: 3
Current Members
| Seat | Member | Selection | Service | Party | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precinct 1 | Weatherly G Barnard Dorris | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Peter L Clark | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Annie Dean | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Judith L Fenwick | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Douglas H Jones | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Victoria Hamann Lowell | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | James B Newman | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Catherine E O'Brien Bumpus | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Eric Thornton Turkington | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Carissa Conner April | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Alfredo Lopez Aretxabaleta | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Thomas Crane | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Virginia M Land McGuire | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Richard Kendall Latimer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | David H Martin | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Eileen Clifford Miskell | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Peter L Waasdorp, Jr. | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Matthew W Waterbury | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Lysbeth Ackerman Abrams | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Kenneth H Foreman | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Deborah Maguire | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Meghan D Palanza | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Catherine Diane Salter | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Susan L Shephard | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Charles A Swain | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | John Battin Waterbury | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 1 | Linda D Whitehead | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Andrew Dale Ashton | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Karen L Bissonnette | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Sandra Lee Cuny | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Sandra L Faiman-Silva | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Marc P Finneran | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Richard Thomas Johnson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Richard L Merrick | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Susan Panton Smith | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Miranda Adele Vogt | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | David T Buzanoski | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Carol Jean Greeley | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Colin W Reed | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Jared Verrill Goldstone | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Jin-Si Over | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | David McKiernan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Robert B Dugan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Susan Barry Maddigan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Wendi Belknap Buesseler | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Gary D Breitbord | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Ken Owen Buesseler | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Paul C Dreyer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Harriet M Dugan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Frank J Geishecker III | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Catherine Ann Offinger | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Stephen D Rafferty | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Keith Gerard Schwegel | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 2 | Kelly Ashton Welch | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Henry Michael Digiorgio | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Nathaniel E Estes | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Cynthia A Hines | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Dale M Kapp | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Patricia Ann Morano | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Margaret S Nickerson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Carol Howes Strojny | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Jeffrey D Thomas | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Susan B Lloyd | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | John C Beatty | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Anthony James Fusaro | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Donna Lee Hurst | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Michael K McCarthy | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Michael C Palmer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Geralyn Anne Schad | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Jared M Schwartz | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Edward B Swartz | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Thomas Edward Walrath | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Raeleen Francis Bandini | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Peter Barris | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Laura Lee Brothers | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Thomas William Dignes | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Anne Milburn Estes | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | James Francis Grady | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Paul Edward Kapp | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Jonathan Kaufman | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 3 | Bruce Donald Soule | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Mary Ellen Alwardt | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Brian Joseph Keefe | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Melissa Marie Keefe | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Helen Elizabeth Kennedy | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Rose C Mase | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Dina Ann Pandya | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Susan Lee Richman | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Kelly A Taranto | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Linda H Tobey | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Robert Davis Baker | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Kathleen M Beriau | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Samuel J Duffany | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Maureen Scully O'Connell | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Raquel Ann Russell | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Barbara P Schneider | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Scott J Thrasher | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Wendy Lee Vogel | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Edwin P Zylinski II | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Joshua Bond | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Todd S Duffany | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Stefanie Frances Hoffer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Lorraine D Jordan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Ahmed A Mustafa | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Justin Charles Liatsis | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Edward W Pride, III | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Gary B Schneider | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 4 | Jeanne Harper | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Vacant | — | — | — | — |
| Precinct 5 | James Joselph Callahan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | David Francis Chevrier | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | William P Dynan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Charlotte Harris | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Mary Harris | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Charles Thomas McCaffrey Jr. | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Peter A Nielsen Jr. | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | James Willard Partan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Janet D Azarovitz | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Ruth F Brazier | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Douglas C Brown | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Rosemary Carey | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Michael D Kasparian | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Kevin Edward Murphy | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Debra A Rogers | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Nathan James Wilson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Robert C Young | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Lillia Danica Frantin | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Rachel Wisniewski Jakuba | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Catherine A Jewett | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Christopher Lumping | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Ray Andrew Rowitz | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | David R Salter | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Deborah Griffin Scanlon | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | Margaret M Souza | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 5 | David R Walsh | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Robert V Antonucci | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Martha M Asendorf | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Jason Francis Cullinane | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Michael A Duffany | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Thomas Thornton Vose | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Jennifer Bettina McCarthy-Taylor | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Katrina Singsen Nevin | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Paul Sellers | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Douglas H Shearer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Michael Edward Colgan | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Tammy Gilbert | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Kathryn L Elder | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Maureen Harlow-Hawks | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Annie Hart Cool | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Elizabeth M Klein | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Leslie M Paolucci | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Debra Stiffel | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Andrea L Thorrold | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Stephen L Baker | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Peter D Cook | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Melissa C Freitag | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | James Morse | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | John A Netto, Jr. | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Lisa Jo Rudy | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Deborah Siegal | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Michael T Stone | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 6 | Todd A Taylor | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Colleen Brady | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | John W Collins III | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Cheryl Cohen Leahy | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Stephen Sidney Monas | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Barry Lester Panish | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Sarav M Patel | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Peter James Siemen | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Jacques Larfore Tompkins | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Eula Aimnee Walsh | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Eleanor M Bouvier | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Richard D Bradley | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Christina Hepner Brodie | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Gerard R Cogliano | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Brian John Guiliano, Sr. | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Margaret McNeill Megaw | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Patricia H Smith | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Tara Lynn Valley | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Donald Gordon Weymouth | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Linda Elizabeth Collins | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Mark Joseph Dillon | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Richard James Hamilton | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Paul George Kanellopoulos | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | George H Lawrence | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Herbert H Luther | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Eric John Peterson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Taryn E Peterson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 7 | Margaret S Szuplat | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Kim Comart | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | James Francis Cummings II | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Ronald Carl Dyer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Nicholas S Lowell | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Hilda M Maingay | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Lynne A Rhodes | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Ronald J Smolowitz | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Steven Peter Solbo, Jr. | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Christine L Uljua | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | John Jay Barkley | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Earle A Barnhart | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Henry Jonathan Biddle Dick | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Jason Hyatt | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Joel Ruhe Kubick | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Amy Elizabeth Leonardi | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Leslie Roberts Lichtenstein | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Teresa R Navickas | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Alyssa M Pohlman | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Winifred J Dick | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Katrina S Cedrone | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Meghan J Hanawalt | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Ralph E Herbst | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Ellen B Ito | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Kira Alexandra Jones | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Grace Abromaitis Simpkins | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Sheri N White | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 8 | Vacant | — | — | — | — |
| Precinct 9 | Susan Elizabeth Augusta | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Phyllis A Day | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Michael Ernest Holcomb | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Hervey Lemay | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Joseph A Netto | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Misty Eileen Niemeyer | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Jack Peter Richardson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Gina Christina Webber | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Francis John Wencek | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | David Lawrence DuBois | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Jeffrey F Duffany | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Richard S Goulart | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Karen A Hargraves | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Peter James Hargraves | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Clayton P Jones | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Dominque Nicole Kirk | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Paul H Kirk | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Deborah F Winograd | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Syrel DS Dawson | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Diane Ella Huban | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Cindy G Papa | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Vincent Alberico Pizzi | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Tracey Jean Waggett | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Ryan James Walker | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Jessica Kae Whritenour | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Megan Elizabeth Zottoli | Elected | Not Verified | Not Verified | — |
| Precinct 9 | Vacant | — | — | — | — |
Presiding Officers
- Town Moderator: David T. Vieira — Elected; Service: May 21st, 2024 — Present; Party: Not Verified; Presiding Officer; May vote only when the Town Meeting vote is tied.
Ex Officio Members
- Town Clerk: Michael C. Palmer — Appointed under Acts of 2026, Chapter 106; Service: June 22nd, 2026 — Present; Party: Not Verified; Clerk of Town Meeting; The Town Clerk has no Town Meeting vote.
Official Resources
- Falmouth Home Rule Charter, Article II — Representative Town Meeting
- Town of Falmouth Town Meeting
- Town of Falmouth 2027–2029 Town Meeting members
- Acts of 2026, Chapter 106 — Appointed Town Clerk in Falmouth
Sources and Verification
Last Verified: August 27, 2026
- Falmouth Home Rule Charter, Article II — Representative Town Meeting — Official Government Law (Checked August 26, 2026)
- Town of Falmouth Town Meeting — Official Government (Checked August 26, 2026)
- Town of Falmouth 2027–2029 Town Meeting members — Official Government Roster (Checked August 26, 2026)
- Acts of 2026, Chapter 106 — Appointed Town Clerk in Falmouth — Official State Law (Checked August 26, 2026)
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