CHIEF JUSTICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF
THE TRIAL COURT APPOINTS NEW CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

 

Boston, MA — Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan today announced that Craig D. Burlingame will be the new Chief  Information Officer for the Trial Court, beginning on June 7, 2004.

              As Chief Information Officer, Mr. Burlingame will report directly to Chief Justice Mulligan and provide the leadership for the continued development of MassCourts, the Trial Court’s major automation initiative.  Working within the Administrative Office of the Trial Court, he will provide strategic direction and implement policies for IT operations, develop IT programs and initiatives throughout the Trial Court, manage the IT budget, and provide coordination between the Information Technology Department and the MassCourts Project.  In his role as Chief Information Officer, Mr. Burlingame will be working closely with Judge James F. McHugh, who was recently named Special Advisor to the Chief Justice for Administration and Management for the MassCourts project.           

            Mr. Burlingame brings to the Trial Court more than twenty years of state and local governmental experience, leadership, and expertise in the Information Technology field.  He is presently the Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston, a cabinet level position, and is responsible for overseeing the City’s utilization of  IT at all levels.  Prior to that, Mr. Burlingame worked in several major positions in state government, including Chief Information Officer for the Secretary of Public Safety, Director of the Criminal History Systems Board, which operates the statewide criminal justice data center, and as the Assistant Commissioner for Information Technology at the Department of Social Services.

            During the course of his government career in information technology, Mr. Burlingame has served on several national commissions and committees. He chaired the Commonwealth’s Criminal Records Improvement Task Force and the Statewide Emergency Telecommunications Board, which was responsible for emergency 911 operations in the state.  He also served as the state’s gubernatorial representative to SEARCH, the national criminal justice policy consortium. 

            Mr. Burlingame has also served on several Massachusetts Trial Court IT subcommittees during the past few years.

            In the March issue of Government Technology Magazine, Mr. Burlingame was featured as one of the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers,” who “implemented innovative ideas that improved citizen services and public safety,” and who did it “with cost-effectiveness demanded by current budget realities,” according to the magazine’s editor.

            A native of Cape Cod, Mr. Burlingame presently lives in Boston.