They were the parents of two children, Mary Francis (William Edwards) and Tom (Katy Caron) the parents of Mayor Tom and his sister Suzan. The mayor is the father of two adult children, Evan, and Ryan and one beautiful granddaughter, Harper. Tom’s parents were hardworking, loving parents, who, like Tom, spent their adult life in Anderson serving others. Tom’s dad, a former business owner, was a locally elected county public official who served longer than any other public official--44 years, dying just 2 months short of completing his last year in office. Tom’s mother was a registered nurse who practiced nursing in the community for 40 years. Tom’s sister, Suzan (David Schmidt), is the youngest of the two siblings. Tom also has a niece, Katie.

Mayor Broderick, after his graduation from Anderson High School, attended and graduated from Ball State University where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree.  He later attended Oklahoma City University where he studied law, later transferring to Indiana University School of Law where he earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree. Tom was admitted to practice law before the Indiana Supreme and Indiana Appellate Courts, the United States Federal Southern District Court of Indiana and later to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC. While at Ball State Tom interned for the Indiana State Senate. After being admitted to practice law, Tom opened his own private practice in downtown Anderson, and he continued to practice law for 40 years. His areas of practice included both civil and criminal law. Tom also served as a deputy prosecuting attorney, Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for his county for a total of 12 years. He also served as a public defender for over 15 years.

Tom was also elected and served 12 years as a member of the Madison County Council, serving twice as its president. Tom was also Chairman of the Madison County Personnel Board, member of the Community Corrections Advisory Board, the Madison County Data Board and member of the Board of Directors for the Anderson/Madison County Visitors and Convention Bureau. 

Tom closed his private practice of law, after being elected mayor of the city, noting that the position of mayor demanded and deserved his full attention.

Tom was first elected Mayor in 2015.  After a successful first term Tom sought re-election running on the theme “Progress You Can See”. He was re-elected to a second term by the largest margin in 4 decades according to reporting by the local Herald Bulletin newspaper. His re-election effort attracted votes from all areas of political persuasion, including Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and first-time voters.   Mayor Broderick has responded to the wide range of support, stating, “Voters responded positively to the work we accomplished on their behalf. They understand, as I do, that the operation of the city, the providing of essential city services, the implementation and protection of our utilities, infrastructure, and taking a fiscally conservative approach to protect and strengthen our financial position, while providing for quality of life and quality of place initiatives, for our children, families and seniors; and ensuring professional police and fire protection can have no regard for partisan politics. A mayor does best for this city, by working for all its citizens regardless of politics and treating everyone in a fair and just manner. That is what we have done, it’s what we do now, and it is what we will do in the future if selected to carry forward with our future plans for our city and its citizens.”

When Mayor Broderick took office for the second time on January 1, 2020, within 8 weeks the world was forever affected by the world-wide pandemic, caused by COVID-19. While the pandemic stuck every individual and business in our community, Mayor Broderick worked with local and state leaders to help keep our community safe, while also working daily, with his team of city workers, to ensure that basic city services continued to be provided to every citizen, that utilities continued uninterrupted, and that public safety continued to operate fully. This was accomplished by Mayor Broderick without any resulting layoffs of employees, without budget cuts, and with a steady hand of leadership that was the result of his years of experience, knowledge, and education…that paid off for Anderson.

While we all pray for no future pandemics, we must realize that the operation of the city of Anderson is big business.  It requires an individual with real qualifications and experience. The mayor, as the executive of the city, oversees an operation with nearly 700 employees, 21 departments, 4 city owned utilities and 6 unions with bargaining rights. The civil city budget is $38.5 million dollars, but when the non-civic city funds and the utility budgets are considered, the actual annual budget is $230 million dollars.

Mayor Broderick has submitted and had approved 7 balanced budgets, he has cut our bonded indebtedness by $45.6 million dollars, and has taken a weakened city budget with only a $3.5 million dollar operating budget, and has not only protected it, but built it to $22 million, a level that ensures that we have money available to pay our bills in a timely fashion. This also allows us to weather unknown events, like the pandemic, and to be able to make major one-time improvements without raising tax dollars.