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Video: 2026 Fall Probation Officer Graduation
Skip this video 2026 Fall Probation Officer Graduation.The largest Probation Academy Class to date received their badges and certificates before a packed audience of friends, family, and their Chief and Assistant Chief Probation Officers. Regional staff and members of Probation Commissioner Pamerson Ifill’s executive team were also in the audience.
Because of the class size, 29 graduates, and limited seating, the Fall 2026 Class graduation was broadcast via Zoom, a first-time occurrence for any academy class. Approximately 172 people were on Zoom, many sending thumbs up, clapping hands, and heart emoji’s throughout the ceremony.
The graduation began with the bagpipe melody of the MCOFU Pipes and Drums and the Massachusetts Trial Court Honor Guard leading the new Probation Officers into the room before delighted family members who recorded the special moment with their cell phones and vigorous standing ovations. Some had flowers or balloons awaiting their graduates. Brockton District Court Probation Officer Linda Santos sang the “National Anthem.”
Commissioner Pamerson O. Ifill, Superior Court First Justice Michael Ricciuti, Training Unit Manager Dr. Patricia Gavin, and Program Manager James Hotaling Hotaling addressed the graduates and audience.
Chief Justice Ricciuti administered the oath as the graduates repeated after him.
One by one, the new PO’s were presented their badges and certificates as family members, friends, and managers ran to the front of the room to pose for photos with their graduates, Commissioner Ifill, and Chief Justice Ricciuti. A little girl walked up to her mother, a graduate and presented her with a long stem rose as she bent down, kissed and hugged her.
The 2026 Academy Class President Tatsuka St. Fort, a Brockton District Court PO, addressed her classmates and the audience sharing words both humorous and encouraging.
Class of Fall 2026 Probation Officer Academy Graduates
- Oumaima Atia, Plymouth Superior Court
- Jalen Bernard, Somerville District Court
- Amy Bowman, Attleboro District Court
- Lauren Boyle, Somerville District Court
- Janisa Bynum, Suffolk Juvenile District Court
- Ciara Carroll, Lynn District Court
- Brittany Cormier, Worcester Juvenile Court
- Taylor Davis, Bristol Superior Court
- Taylor Deluga, Norfolk Juvenile Court
- Hailey Gomes, Bristol Superior Court
- Hunter Hassett, Worcester Superior Court
- Kayla Hitchcock, Hampden Juvenile Court
- Tatyana Holman-Utley, West Roxbury, BMC
- Tara Howard, Suffolk Superior Court
- Michaela Kewley, Central Division, BMC
- Mikayla Kindell, Malden District Court
- Christopher McCarthy, Middlesex Superior Court
- Ryan Murphy, Falmouth District Court
- Kevin Nieto, Essex Superior Court
- Emily Paine, Plymouth Probate & Family Court
- Lekeisha Ramsay, Suffolk Superior Court
- Alexandra Robledo-Morales, Essex Superior Court
- Yaribel Rodriguez, Lynn District Court
- Veronica Salamea, Marlborough District Court
- Tatsuka St. Fort, Brockton District Court
- Kristina Stella, Essex Superior Court
- Asia Strothers, New Bedford District Court
- Charice Vaccaro, Franklin/Hampshire Juvenile Court
- Mikayla Wooding, Uxbridge District Court
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