Donnalee Lozeau was elected the 55th Mayor of the City of Nashua in November of 2007. As mayor she serves a four-year term, managing New Hampshire’s second largest city with 87,000 residents and 2,850 employees. In this capacity she also chairs the city’s Finance Committee and Board of Public Works.

Mayor Lozeau’s career in public service began in 1984 when she was first elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Nashua’s Ward 5. During her sixteen years in the legislature, she became a leader on criminal justice, housing, healthcare and youth programs, while also tackling key issues such as kindergarten, school funding, juvenile justice, and the death penalty. As Deputy Speaker of the House in 1998, Mayor Lozeau was named to New Hampshire Magazine’s list of Ten Most Powerful Women.

From 1994 to 2008 Donnalee worked as the Director of Program and Community Development at Southern New Hampshire Services. Collaborating with businesses, service providers, and government agencies, she helped develop hundreds of units of housing for seniors and the homeless, expanded child care and Head Start programs and established the Economic Opportunity Center to encourage financial self-sufficiency and assist with employment opportunities.

Throughout the years, Mayor Lozeau has been active in numerous community organizations:

• Director of the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce
• First President of Nashua’s Great American Downtown
• President of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Nashua
• Chairman of the Mayor’s Housing Task Force and a member of the Greater Nashua Workforce Housing Coalition
• Commissioner of the Nashua Airport Authority
• A founding member and Chairman of the Greater Nashua Dental Connection
• As a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, traveled as a delegate to the Philippines, led a group of officials to Taiwan, and hosted a delegation from El Salvador and Nicaragua

For her dedication to community service, the mayor was recognized with the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce’s Eminence Award for Volunteer of the Year in 2004, and the United Way of Greater Nashua’s Max I. Silber Community Service Award in 2006.

Mayor Lozeau, a third-generation Nashua native, attended public schools and Rivier College. She and her husband of 25 years, David, have three children and two grandchildren.