For Immediate Release

Nov. 18, 2010

Dave Sullivan for District Attorney
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Northwestern District Attorney-Elect Sullivan Forms Transition

Team

Northwestern District Attorney-Elect Dave Sullivan thanks the voters of

Hampshire and Franklin counties and the Town of Athol for placing
their confidence in him and has announced that he has formed a
Northwestern District Attorney Transition Team.

The team will assist Sullivan in putting into place a leadership team
that will begin work following Sullivan’s official swearing-in ceremony
in Northampton, Jan. 5, 2011 in Hampshire Superior Court and at.

“With the help of the Transition Team I expect to be able to assemble

the best team of prosecutors and staff in Massachusetts,” Sullivan
said.

The Transition Team’s mission is as follows:

• To advise and guide the District Attorney-elect and his team in

building an outstanding and successful District Attorney’s Office;

• To ensure a professional and effective transition from District

Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel’s administration to the new
administration;

• To assist with the retention, recruitment, and hiring of quality

staff and attorneys;

• To develop and provide recommendations for improving the

delivery of justice, protection of the public, and safeguarding of
the rights of all;

• To plan and advise on future community-based justice programs,

advisory boards, and committees for the District Attorney’s
Office;

• To develop recommendations to make the District Attorney’s

Office more accessible and responsive to the needs of cities,
towns, and people in the Northwestern District;
 • To establish plans for implementation of a Community
Prosecution program for the 47 communities of the Northwestern
District;

• To establish plans and goals to strengthen law enforcement

collaboration and assistance within the Northwestern District;

The Transition Team will help plan the swearing-in ceremonies in

Northampton and Greenfield on January 5, 2011, about which more
details will be made available at a later date.

The Transition Team will be in place until April 1, 2011.

The members of the transition team include Thomas Merrigan, David

Angier, Janice Healy, Martha Murphy Kane, Patricia Romney, Mary
Carey and Joy Rain. Brief biographies follow.

Thomas T. Merrigan, of Greenfield, chairperson of the committee,

has been 8th District Governor's Councillor since 2006. He was an
Orange District Court judge for 12 years, stepping down in 2002, and is
currently a partner in Rawson, Merrigan & Litner, LLP. He received the
Trial Court Judge of the Year award in 2000 and Achievement in
Restorative Justice Award in 2001.

David Angier, of Conway, is a former first assistant Northwestern

District Attorney. Since 2003, he has been a partner at Allison, Angier
& Bartmon, LLP, in Amherst, with a focus on employment law, personal
injury, discrimination, and civil litigation. He was instrumental in
strengthening Massachusetts child abuse laws.

Janice Healy, of Conway, has been the chief of the Western

Massachusetts Regional Office of the Attorney General's Office for the
past 11 years. She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the
public defender's office in Springfield. Following four years as a public
defender, she spent the next 12 years in private practice in Springfield
as an associate in the law firm of Antonucci and Associates and as a
partner in the firm of Dalsey, Ferrara and Healy, concentrating in
criminal defense and civil litigation. Prior to her appointment as Chief
of the Western Massachusetts Division in 1999, Healy was the chief
administrator for Legal Options, Inc., an alternative dispute resolution
firm.

Martha Murphy Kane, of Holyoke, is currently Hampden Superior

Court supervisor for the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office, in
Springfield, where she has worked since 1987. She was a member of
the Public Safety Council of Hampden County, the Western Regional
Homeland Security Council and City Wide Violence Prevention Task
Force and is the coordinator of the Hampden County Parole & Reentry
Committee.

Patricia Romney, of Amherst, is president and founder of Romney

Associates, which has assisted organizations in the areas of diversity,
community building, and leadership development for the past 30
years. She is a visiting associate professor of psychology at Mount
Holyoke College and a core faculty member in the Organizational
Psychology Master’s Program at the Massachusetts School of
Professional Psychology. She maintains a small clinical practice
specializing in geriatric psychology.

Mary Carey, of Amherst, has been an adjunct instructor of journalism

at UMass Amherst since 2002 and was a Daily Hampshire Gazette
reporter from 1994-2009.

Joy Rain, of Northampton, is currently a real estate agent at Delap

Real Estate, LLC. She has been in the business of change for over 15
years as a diversity and inclusion consultant, life coach, University of
Massachusetts social justice education research associate, and
professor of psychology and women’s studies at Pine Manor College in
Chestnut Hill.

Northwestern District Attorney-elect Sullivan has been an attorney for

23 years, serving for 16 years as a trial attorney and advocate. He was
the city attorney for Easthampton from March 1999 to Dec. 2002
before his election in 2002 to Register of Probate for Hampshire
Probate and Family Court.

In 2008, he was one of two Massachusetts lawyers chosen to receive

the Massachusetts Bar Foundation's President Award for "extraordinary
volunteerism, leadership, and commitment to increasing access to
justice in Massachusetts."

He has been chairman of the Easthampton Board of Assessors,

president of the Citizen's Scholarship Foundation of Easthampton and
president of Western Massachusetts Shelter for Homeless Veterans. He
has been a member of the Northampton Domestic Violence-Free Zone
Committee and the Easthampton Inter-Faith Cot Shelter.

A 1981 graduate of the Isenberg School of Management at the

University of Massachusetts and a 1986 graduate of the Northeastern
University School of Law, Sullivan is married to Catherine Hancock and
they have three daughters.