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