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Governor’s Councilor Tara Jacobs visits committee to discuss judicial appointments and clemency outreach
Summary
Tara Jacobs, the Governor’s Councilor for Western Massachusetts, spoke to the committee about judicial vacancies in Western Mass, efforts to recruit judicial applicants, appeals-court representation, and outreach to increase clemency (pardon) applications.
Tara Jacobs, the governor’s councilor representing Western Massachusetts, visited the Development & Government Relations Committee on Monday to explain the governor’s council’s role and to discuss judicial appointments and clemency outreach.
"I am entering my 2nd term on the governor's council representing 102 cities and towns across all of Western Mass and a little bit of Worcester County," Jacobs told the committee and described the council’s primary duties: advising and consenting to the governor’s judicial nominations, confirming clerk magistrates and parole-board members, and participating in clemency decisions.
Jacobs described a consistent problem: a smaller applicant pool for judicial openings in Western Massachusetts than in eastern Massachusetts. "The Western...…
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