Governor Healey Nominates Fabiola White to Juvenile Court and Edee Alexander to Parole Board
BOSTON – Governor
Maura T. Healey today nominated Fabiola
White as Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Juvenile Court and Edith
“Edee” Alexander to the Massachusetts
Parole Board. The nominees will now be considered by the Governor’s Council for
confirmation.
“Fabiola
White has shown a lifelong commitment to protecting and supporting children in
need of care and I’m confident her experiences will serve
her well as an Associate Justice on our Juvenile
Court. Similarly, Edee Alexander has dedicated her career to equitable
treatment under the law and I am excited to
nominate her as a Parole Board Member,” said Governor
Healey. “I look forward to hearing from the Governor’s Council as they
consider these nominees.”
“We are
proud to submit Fabiola White and Edee Alexander to the
Governor’s Council for consideration,” said Lieutenant Governor Kim
Driscoll. “They have both dedicated their careers to public service
and upholding the law and will be incredible assets to our
state’s justice system.”
Fabiola
White brings a lifetime of personal and professional experience to
the Juvenile Court bench. She emigrated from Haiti to Cambridge as a child and
was raised in foster care. She has worked for Massachusetts Probation Services
since 2019, first as an Administrative Attorney and currently as Deputy Legal
Counsel. Prior to that, she led her own practice where she represented children
and families in care and protection proceedings, guardianships, child requiring
assistance and delinquency proceedings in the Cambridge and Boston Juvenile
Courts. In addition, she represented adults in criminal cases in the Cambridge
and Chelsea district courts. She previously worked for the Suffolk County
District Attorney’s Office as a Victim Witness Advocate in Suffolk Superior court,
Chelsea District Court and the Boston Municipal Courts. While at the
district attorney’s office she worked part-time at the “Meeting Place” as a
Child Access Supervisor where she facilitated and documented child-parent
interactions in court ordered supervised visits. Attorney White is also a
council member of the Massachusetts Bar Associations Juvenile Justice and Child
Welfare Section Council and a member of Massachusetts Black Lawyers
Association. She has a B.A in Criminal Justice from Lasell College, M.A in
Criminal Justice from Suffolk University and a J.D. from Massachusetts School
of Law. Attorney White lives in Medford with her husband and three
children.
The mission of the Juvenile Court is to protect children from abuse and
neglect, to promote opportunities for children to reside in safe, stable,
permanent family environments, to strengthen families, to rehabilitate
juveniles, and to protect the public from delinquent and criminal behavior. The
Juvenile Court Department has jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters
including delinquencies, youthful offender cases, care and protection matters
and children requiring assistance cases. It has 42 judges, including the Chief
Justice, sitting in over 40 courthouses.
For more
information about the Juvenile Court, visit its homepage.
Edee
Alexander has been a leader in her community for decades. She
currently works as a Probation Officer for the Roxbury Division of
the Boston Municipal Court, where she assists in running the court’s
CHOICE program, a comprehensive 18-month program aimed at reducing
recidivism among young adults aged 18-24. Through the program,
young people who are on administrative or supervised probation meet regularly
with Alexander, enroll in educational and job training programs, attend
parenting courses if they are parents, and have access to meals. Many of the
program participants are housing insecure. Alexander began her career
as the Program Director of Perrin House Community Services in
Boston, where she was responsible for the supervision and operation of a
residential program for pregnant and postpartum women recovering from
substance use disorder. She later worked as a Faculty Research
Associate at Boston University’s Graduate School of Social Work where she
managed start up programs connecting city youth and their parents
with educational and employment opportunities. She has a B.A. in
Social Work from Lincoln University and a Masters of Education
Counseling/Psychology from Cambridge College. She’s a member of the Alpha
Kappa Delta Honor Society and a former Board Member of United Homes
for Children and Peace at Home.
The Parole
Board’s mission is to promote public safety through supervised, conditional
release of inmates to the community, so that a successful transition from
confinement to discharge from parole provides a basis for continued responsible
conduct. The Parole Board serves the public, victims, inmates,
parolees, and petitioners throughout the Commonwealth by conducting
face-to-face parole release hearings, providing notice and assistance to victims,
supervising parolees in the community, and providing reentry services to those
leaving custody with no mandated post-release supervision.
For more
information about the Massachusetts Parole Board, visit its homepage.
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