About Governor's Council

The eight-member Council approves or rejects the Governor’s judicial, parole board, and industrial accident board nominees. Councillors are elected from one of eight districts to 2-year terms.

 

Paul represents 65 communities in Central Massachusetts. Click here to see the list.

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Note! Redistricting has changed District 7 for 2022!

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About Paul:

Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo with daughters, 2018

Councillor DePalo is an attorney, former special education teacher, and father of two daughters.

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As an educator, Paul has developed and taught in alternative programming for adolescents coping with trauma and social-emotional disabilities. He was also a Principal Resident in Boston Public Schools.

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As an attorney, Paul has practiced in state and federal court and been recognized for his pro bono work in education law, and managed a solo practice. He has also served on the Worcester Planning Board.

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Wesleyan University, BA​

Northeastern University School of Law, JD

Fitchburg State University, MEd

 
Massachusetts Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo's Assmebly Statement on need for reform of Parole Board
Massachusetts Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo Speaks at a campaign event with guest Congressman Jim McGovern of Worcester, July 26, 2021
Image from interview with Massachusetts Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo about juvenile justice
Paul DePalo Terrence Terry Kennedy Massachusetts Governor's Council
Massachusetts Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo and Etel Haxhiaj call for modernizing Worcester zoning ordinance
Massachusetts Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo with Register of Deeds Katie Toomey Representative Mary Keefe and Joyce McNickles at Worcester County Commission on the Status of Women Legilsative Breakfast
Massachusetts Governor's Councilor Paul DePalo presides over Governor's Council hearing 2021
 

On the issues:

End the trauma-to-prison pipeline. 

Get kids on paths of opportunity, not incarceration.

Learn more about juvenile justice: "Shutting Down the Trauma to Prison Pipeline" by the Citizens for Juvenile Justice, 2018. 

Attack systemic racism.

Appoint Black and Latino judges. Address grotesque sentencing and incarceration disparities.

Learn more about the racial disparities in Massachusetts justice system in this Harvard report commissioned by the late SJC Chief Justice, Ralph Gants.

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