What:
Greater Boston Postal District Annual History Month event

Who:
The Greater Boston Postal District; The keynote speaker for this year's event, Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral

When:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Where:
United States Postal Service
25 Dorchester Ave. (3rd Floor Cafeteria)
Boston, MA 02205-9998

Background:
Andrea J. Cabral, Esq. is the 30th Sheriff of Suffolk County and the first Black American female sheriff in Massachusetts history. Following a call by the Stern Commission for significant reform in the Sheriff’s Department, she was appointed to the position by former Governor Jane Swift in 2002, won election in 2004 and re-election in 2010. She is a past president and past vice-president of the Massachusetts Sheriffs Association.

Sheriff Cabral was an Assistant District Attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office from 1993-2002. As Chief of District Court and Community Prosecutions, she trained and supervised 48 prosecutors in Suffolk County’s eight district courts and the Boston Municipal Court. She also created and was Chief of Suffolk County’s first major felony Domestic Violence Unit.

From 1991 to 1993, Sheriff Cabral was an Assistant Attorney General in the Trial and Civil Rights Divisions of the Attorney General’s Office and an Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office from 1987 to 1991.

She is the author of the book Obtaining, Enforcing and Defending 209A Restraining Orders in Massachusetts and co-author of the article, Creating Courtroom Accessibility from the book: Same-Sex Domestic Violence by Beth Levanthal and Sandra Lundy, Esq., Ph.D. In addition, Sheriff Cabral has been a featured speaker, faculty member and panelist for a number of bar associations, professional organizations, legal education seminars and law school forums.

She is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School.

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