Daniel F. Conley
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Daniel F. Conley is the current District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts which serves Boston, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop. A resident of the Hyde Park section of Boston, he is married to the former Tricia McGillicuddy, and has two children, Jim and Christine.
A graduate from Stonehill College in 1980 and Suffolk University Law School in 1983, he joined the office of the Suffolk County District Attorney after passing the bar. Beginning his career as an Assistant D.A. handling cases in the Boston Municipal Court; he would later begin prosecuting juvenile cases in the Boston Juvenile Court. In 1987 he was promoted to the Boston Superior Court where he began handling felony cases. When gang violence increased in Boston during the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was promoted by then District Attorney Ralph Martin to the anti-gang violence task force. In 1992 he was promoted to the Homicide Unit of the D.A.'s office.
In 1993, he left the D.A.'s office and ran for the District Five seat on the Boston City Council, where he would remain (as head of the City Council's Public Safety Committee) until being appointed Suffolk County D.A. on February 19, 2002 (he was subsequently elected in November 2002).
More recently, he has made himself an outspoken opponent of the death penalty, according to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
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In 1999, Conley was presented with the O'Riordan-Mundy Award, an honor bestowed by former prosecutors, in recognition of his distinguished service to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, the legal community, and the citizens of Massachusetts.
Conley is a lifetime honorary member of the Fraternal Order of Police. A former member of the National League of Cities' Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy Committee. A member of the Advisory Board for Suffolk University Law School's Honors Program in Law and Public Service. He is also a member of the Social Justice Committee of the Order Sons of Italy in America.
