Transition

I am honored that effective January 18, 2023, I will begin my term as the next Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I intend to serve as an Attorney General for all of us — no matter who you are, where you live, or where you come from. Together, we will ensure that the best public law firm in the country continues to truly represent the people. I welcome the interest of any individual who wishes to join us. Thank you again for your interest.

With deep gratitude,

Andrea Joy Campbell
Attorney General-Elect

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Update: January 12, 2023

Attorney General-Elect Andrea Joy Campbell today announced new Executive Bureau hires ahead of her historic inauguration next Wednesday, January 18, 2023. 

The incoming hires will hold key leadership positions in Campbell’s office and bring a diverse array of skills and perspective to the office including legal, community engagement, policy and communications experience.

Among other duties, they are tasked with helping AG-Elect Campbell execute the agenda and priorities she laid out during her campaign. These include expanding the reach of the Attorney General’s Office, prioritizing the mental health and wellbeing of our children, focusing on economic opportunity and wealth-building strategies for families, and creating healthier, safer communities. 

AG-Elect Campbell’s hires include: 

  • Sara Cable, Deputy Attorney General (previously Senior Privacy Attorney, Northeastern University; Chief, Data Privacy and Security Division, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office)
  • Rontear Pendleton, Deputy Attorney General (previously General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards; Assistant Attorney General and Grand Jury Director, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office)
  • Abigail Taylor, Deputy Attorney General (previously Chief, Civil Rights Division and Deputy Chief, Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office; Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice)
  • Amanda Hainsworth, Senior Legal Advisor (previously Managing Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office; Special Assistant District Attorney, Office of the Norfolk County District Attorney)
  • Jamie Hoag, Chief of Staff (JFK Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, MC-MPA Program; previously Director of Government Relations, College of the Holy Cross; Deputy Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Patrick)
  • Will Stockton, Senior Advisor (previously Transition Director, AG-Elect Campbell; Campaign Manager for Campbell AG campaign; Deputy Field Director, Virginia Coordinated Campaign; Field Director, Tom Malinowski for Congress; Regional Field Director, New Hampshire for Warren)
  • Emily Torres-Cullinane, Division Chief, Community Engagement Division (previously Director of Community Engagement, Metropolitan Area Planning Council) 
  • Anne Johnson Landry, Division Chief, Policy and Government Division (previously Assistant Attorney General and Senior Policy Advisor, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office; Chief Counsel, Office of State Senator William Brownsberger)
  • Molly McGlynn, Press Secretary (previously Communications and Political Director for Campbell AG campaign; Deputy Communications Director, Annissa Essaibi George for Mayor of Boston; Assistant Communications Director, Boston Planning & Development Agency, City of Boston)
  • Tamica Henri, Special Assistant to the Attorney General (previously Director of Operations for Campbell AG campaign)
  • Carlos Garcia, Advance Coordinator (previously Deputy Operations Director for Campbell AG campaign; Deputy Campaign Manager, Chris Dempsey for State Auditor)

“I’m thrilled to announce new members of my Executive Bureau and honored to work in partnership with each of them,” said AG-Elect Andrea Joy Campbell. “They are each leaders in their own right, bringing a distinct set of skills and passion for public service that will help us serve the people of Massachusetts on day one.”

Those listed above will join the AGO along with First Assistant Attorney General Pat Moore, who AG-Elect Campbell announced last month she would be appointing to that position. AG-Elect Campbell will announce additional hires in the coming days and weeks. 

AG-Elect Campbell will be sworn in as the 45th Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. She will be the first Black woman to hold the position and the first woman of color to hold statewide office.


Update: December 5, 2022

Today, Attorney General-Elect Andrea Campbell announced the chairs and members of her Transition Team. Campbell has named Brent Henry, Mary Strother, Ralph Martin, and Stephanie Lovell as her Transition Co-Chairs. Will Stockton, who served as Campbell’s Campaign Manager, will serve as Transition Director. 

“I am honored to have the support of this incredible transition committee as we move to the next phase of our work to create a more just, more fair Commonwealth while fighting to protect the rights, health and well-being of all our residents. We have brought together a diverse group of lawyers, youth, subject matter experts, and business, non-profit and community leaders to review the work of the office while identifying the north stars for every bureau,” said Attorney General-Elect Andrea Campbell.

Campbell’s Transition Committee will include a Hiring Committee and a ‘Ready on Day One’ Committee, composed of five sub-committee teams focused on the work of the following AGO bureaus: Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau, Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau, Government Bureau, Energy and Environment Bureau, and Criminal Bureau. A full list of members can be found below.

Campbell Transition Committee

Transition Director

Will Stockton, Former Campaign Manager, Andrea Campbell for Attorney General

 

Transition Co-Chairs

Brent Henry, Partner, Mintz

Mary Strother, Former First Assistant Attorney General

Ralph Martin, Former Suffolk County District Attorney

Stephanie Lovell, Former First Assistant Attorney General

 

Hiring Committee

Angela Gomes, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester

Brent Henry, Partner, Mintz

Mary Strother, Former First Assistant Attorney General

Navjeet Bal, Managing Director & General Counsel of Social Finance; Former Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue

Pat Moore, Partner, Hemenway & Barnes; Former Associate Counsel at the White House, Deputy General Counsel to the Biden for President campaign, and Deputy Counsel to Governors Patrick and Baker

Ralph Martin, Former Suffolk County District Attorney

Stephanie Lovell, Former First Assistant Attorney General

Stesha Emmanuel, Partner, McCarter & English

 

Ready on Day One Committee

Ready on Day One Committee Co-Chairs

Pat Moore, Partner, Hemenway & Barnes; Former Associate Counsel at the White House, Deputy General Counsel to the Biden for President campaign, and Deputy Counsel to Governors Patrick and Baker

Sara Cable, Senior Privacy Attorney for Northeastern University; Former Chief of the Data Privacy and Security Division for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

 

Criminal Bureau Team

Co-Chair: Giselle Joffre, Partner and Co-Chair of White Collar Crime & Government Investigations Practice, Foley Hoag

Co-Chair: Jack Cinquegrana, Senior Counsel, Choate

Craig Maclellan, Criminal Defense Bar Advocate; Former Suffolk County Youth Violence/Safe Neighborhood Prosecutor

Hon. Geraldine Hines (ret.)

Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, Executive Director, Lawyers for Civil Rights

Jacquelynne J. Bowman, Executive Director, Greater Boston Legal Services, Inc.

Kevin Molis, Former Chief of Police, Malden 

Kim West, Partner at Ashcroft Law Firm; Former Chief, Criminal Bureau, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Marc Laredo, Partner at Laredo & Smith, LLP in Boston and former Assistant Attorney General

Margo Lindauer, Former Director of the Domestic Violence Institute; Former Clinical Professor, Northeastern University School of Law 

Molly Baldwin, Founder and CEO, ROCA, Inc

Rahsaan Hall, Principal, Rahsaan Hall Consulting

Sara Stanley, Executive Director, Healing Abuse Working for Change (HAWC)

 

Energy and Environment Bureau Team

Co-Chair: Lisa Goodheart, Partner at Sugarman Rogers

Co-Chair: Paul Dacier, General Counsel, Indigo

Atyia Martin, CEO at All Aces, Inc. and former Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Boston

Ben Downing, Former State Senator, Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden District

Elizabeth Turnbull Henry, President, Environmental League of Massachusetts

Emiley Lockhart, Deputy General Counsel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Jeff Porter, Chair, Environmental Law Practice, Mintz

Marcy Reed, Former President of National Grid

Maria Belen, Associate Executive Director, GreenRoots, Inc.

Mike Bakas, Executive Vice President, Ameresco

Todd Cronan, Senior Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP

 

Government Bureau Team

Co-Chair: Marty Murphy, Partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department, Foley Hoag

Co-Chair: Jennifer Grace Miller, Former Chief, Government Bureau, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Co-Chair: Navjeet Bal, Managing Director & General Counsel of Social Finance; Former Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue

Don Stern, Managing Director of Corporate Monitoring & Consulting Services at Affiliated Monitors; Former US Attorney; Former Chief, Government Bureau, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office 

Ed Lambert, Former Mayor of Fall River

Jamie Hoag, JFK Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, MC-MPA Program

Hon. Margot Botsford (ret.)

Paige Scott Reid, Former General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Scott Lang, Former Mayor of New Bedford

Susan Maze-Rothstein, Executive Director, Center for Restorative Justice, Suffolk University 

Tony Sapienza, Chair, New Bedford Chamber of Commerce; Chair, New Bedford Whaling Museum

 

Healthcare and Fair Competition Bureau Team

Co-Chair: Michael Curry, President & CEO, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Co-Chair: Lois Dehls Cornell, Executive Vice President of the Massachusetts Medical Society

Alice Mark, MD, MSc, OB/Gyn, Reproductive Health Consultant

Bob Gittens, Executive Director, Bridges Homeward

Dallas Ducar, CEO, Transhealth

Mary McGeown, Executive Director, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, PhD, MPH, CHES, Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health, Associate Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Director and Founder, Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice, Tufts University of School of Medicine; Director and Founder, MOTHER Lab

Paul Ayoub, Chair, Nutter

Thea James, MD, Vice President of Mission and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Boston Medical Center

Troy Brennan, MD, Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health; Former Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CVS Health

 

Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau Team

Co-Chair: Jon Miller, Chief Program Officer, Public Rights Project; former Bureau Chief in the Attorney General’s Office

Co-Chair: Hon. Merita Hopkins (ret.)

Barbara Anthony, Senior Fellow in Healthcare Policy, Pioneer Institute; Former Chief, Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Barbara L’Italien, Executive Director, Disability Law Center, Inc.  

Bob Sherman, Senior Counsel, Greenberg Traurig; Former Ambassador to Portugal; Former Chief, Chief of the Consumer Protection Division, Office of the Attorney General

Carl Steidel, Senior Director of Operations, Center for Restorative Justice, Suffolk University (In consultation with Carolyn Boyes-Watson, PhD, Founder)

Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairwoman, Wampanoag Tribe, Aquinnah

Cliff Cohn, Former State Council President, SEIU; Former Chief of Staff, SEIU Local 509

Darian Butcher, Founder, Butcher Law; Co-chair, Trust and Estates Education Committee of the Boston Bar Association; Member, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being; President of the Board of Directors of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)

Elizabeth Matos, Executive Director, Prisoner’s Legal Services 

Eric Shupin, Director of Public Policy, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association

Deisy Escobar, Railroad Street Youth Project; Co-Chair for the Southern Berkshire Community Health Coalition

Gary Klein, Former Senior Trial Counsel, Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Jeff Clements, Former Assistant Attorney General & Chief, Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau

Joanne Goldstein, Former Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development

Jocelyn Jones, Partner, Segal Roitman, LLP

Joe Hungler, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of Lowell

Josh Dohan,  Former Director of the Youth Advocacy Division, Committee for Public Counsel Services

Liza Price, Railroad Street Youth Project

Lydia Edwards, State Senator, 1st Suffolk and Middlesex District

Mac Hudson, Board Member, Prisoner’s Legal Services 

Marisol Pierce Bonifaz, Reproductive Justice Advocate

​​Marlies Spanjaard, Director of Education Advocacy, Committee for Public Counsel Services

Michael A. Johnson, Chief Legal Strategist, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)

Peter Merrigan, Partner, Sweeney Merrigan Law

Sherry Riva, Founder and Strategic Advisor, Compass Working Capital; Co-Chair, Andrea Campbell for Attorney General

Thomas Bond, Partner, Kaplan Bond Group

Zoila Gomez, Founder & Managing Partner, Gomez & Palumbo