State Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team Membership

Learn about the members of the State Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team. This page details the range of professionals dedicated to preventing domestic violence fatalities.

The State Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team is made up of the following people:

• The Secretary of Public Safety, or a designee from their office, who leads the team as the Chair.
• The Attorney General, or a designee from their office
• The chief medical examiner, or a designee from their office.
• A member selected by the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association.
• The colonel of the state police, or a designee from their office.
• The commissioner of probation, or someone they choose from their office.
• A member selected by the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance, who must be an employee of that office.
• A retired judge from the trial court, who is appointed by the Governor.

Core Members: 

1. Vilma Uribe, Chair, Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, Governor’s Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence (Designee)
2. Anna Holding, Attorney General's Office (Designee)
3. Deborah Mendoza-Lochrie, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (Designee)
4. Megan McGovern, Massachusetts District Attorney's Association (Designee)
5. Kathryn Downey, Massachusetts State Police (Designee)
6. Corinn Crowninshield (Nelson), Massachusetts Probation Services (Designee)
7. Liam Lowney,  Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance
8. Ret. Hon. Sydney Hanlon, Retired Trial Court Judge

 Other Members:

1. Kaitlyn O'Leary, Massachusetts Parole Board
2. Sue Englaish Lachowetz, Department of Children and Families
3. Crystal Jackson, Department of Transitional Assistance

Executive Office of Public Safety and Security:

1. Anjeza Xhemollari, Coordinator
2. Arielle Mulaney, Counsel

_{* In accordance with the Committee on Judicial Ethics (CJE) Opinion No. 2014-4, “Serving on Statutory Commissions”, dated December 10, 2014, Judges are not permitted to serve on the State Fatality Review team despite being named in statute: “The Code also does not permit you to serve on the domestic violence state review team, St. 2014, c. 260, § 4, because its clear focus and unbalanced make-up could convey the impression that domestic violence victims have a special position of influence with the judiciary and that the judiciary is aligned with the interests of law enforcement and the prosecution. You may, however, consult with the Juvenile Life Sentence Commission and the domestic violence state review team pursuant to Section 4C(1) on discrete matters that concern the business of the courts as long as you make your limited participation clear in the reports and any records these commissions produce. Additionally, the Code does not prohibit you from appointing non-judge employees of the judiciary to serve on any of these commissions as your designees. Those designees cannot have more powers than you. Although the Committee cannot render advice to non-judges, the Committee instructs you to inform your designees that the Code’s limitations on your participation also apply to the designees and that these limitations should be clearly disclosed on all documents that list committee members and, on all reports, and recommendations the committee makes.}

_{*Section 18N of chapter 6A, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 30 and 31, the words "the chief justice of the trial court or a designee" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- a retired judge of the trial court to be appointed by the Governor.}