Chuck Turner

Chuck Turner
Member of the Boston City Council from the 7th District
In office 1999–2010
Preceded by	Gareth R. Saunders
Succeeded by	Tito Jackson
Personal details
Born	1941 (age 75–76) Cincinnati, Ohio
Nationality	American
Political party	Green-Rainbow Party
Residence	Roxbury, Boston
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Activist Politician

Chuck Turner (born 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Boston, Massachusetts politician, activist, and convicted felon, who served on the Boston City Council representing District 7. Turner is a member of the Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts affiliate to the national Green Party. Turner also held the distinction of being the highest elected Green official in the state.

He has a BA from Harvard University, was a Community Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was awarded an honorary Associates of Arts degree from Roxbury Community College. Prior to his incarceration, he lived in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with his wife Terri.

Turner has worked as an activist since the 1960s. He has served as the director of a community development corporation, an organizer training center, co-founder of the United Community Construction Workers, and founder of the Boston Jobs Council.

He has also worked as Coordinator of Training at Emerge, a batterer's counseling organization, and as education director at a nonprofit consulting firm focused on establishing worker cooperatives.

He played an instrumental role in the formation of the Boston Workers Alliance.

Turner represented District 7, which includes Roxbury, Fenway, and the South End on the Boston City Council. He won his seat by a 693-vote margin against the city's director of youth services, who was the preferred candidate of Mayor Tom Menino.

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