Chelmsford Town Manager finalist Alex Magee.
The field of candidates to lead Chelmsford has been whittled down to the final two candidates, one of them being a familiar face at Lowell City Hall previously.
The town’s Select Board will meet Monday, July 6, with the agenda listing interviews of Thomas Gregory and Alex Magee as items, followed by “Discussion/Deliberation of Candidates.”
Magee does not have Town Manager experience on his resume, which lists his most recent employment as Deputy Town Manager in Andover from September of 2025 through February of 2026. He got his start in municipal government with the City of Lowell in 2014, working his way up the ladder from Application Specialist in the MIS Department to Data Management Analyst in the office of then City Manager Eileen Donoghue. He became Assistant to Manager Donoghue in 2019 before moving on to Deputy Director in the Public Works Department.
There, he worked under DPW Commissioner Christine Clancy, who now serves as Director of DPW/Facilities in Chelmsford and was one of the names mentioned as a potential Interim Town Manager upon Paul Cohen’s departure on May 25, 2026.
Magee eventually moved on from the Mill City to become Finance Director for the Town of Hamilton from May of 2021-February 2023, followed by a stint as Deputy Town Manager in Arlington from February of 2023-August of 2025.
Chelmsford Town Manager Finalist Thomas Gregory.
The other finalist, Gregory, currently serves as Town Manager in Hudson, MA. He has held that position since 2021, though it was recently announced he would not seek a contract renewal when it is up next Spring. Prior to Hudson, he was Town Administrator in Spencer from March 2018-June 2021, Assistant Town Administrator in Walpole from April 2015-March 2018 and Assistant to the Town Manager in Shrewsbury from April 2011-April 2015.
Originally a teacher, Gregory migrated to the world of government as a Legislative Aide to Worcester State Senator Ed Augustus in 2055, before becoming a Staff Assistant in the City of Worcester’s Office of Housing and Urban Development in 2006 and Director of Supportive Housing in the City Manager’s Office in 2009.
Monday’s Select Board meeting will be held in person and is slated to begin at 5pm. Members of the public may attend the meeting in person, or watch live at chelmsfordtv.org/livestream, at youtube.com/@ChelmsfordtvOrg, on Comcast channel 6, or on Verizon channel 37.
