Denise C. Garlick, a member of the Democratic Party, is an American state legislator representing the 13th Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She graduated from Dedham High School in 1972 and attended the New England Baptist Hospital School of Nursing and Fitchburg State College BSN.
Garlick is a registered nurse by profession. She has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 2011. In Needham, she served as the vice chair of the Board of Selectmen, co-chair of the Needham Senior Center Exploratory Committee, and the chair for the Needham Board of Health.
In 2017, she was honored as the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council’s Legislator of the Year. She is known for her advocacy for women’s rights and access to reproductive care, her work to raise the renewable portfolio standard and net metering cap, and her support for policies that promote environmental justice. She also voted in favor of the 2016 anti-discrimination bill to protect transgender people from discrimination in public places.
