Press Release  New Chair and Vice Chair for Commission on Judicial Conduct

Boston, MA — The Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct announced today that it has elected new officers. The new Chair is Bruce Herring. The new Vice Chair is Louis Aloise, Esq. Many thanks are extended to the outgoing Chair, Judge Katherine Field, for her dedication, hard work, and contributions to the work of the Commission. Many thanks are also extended to the Commission’s former Vice Chair, Attorney Pat Saint James, who resigned from her position in 2024.

Mr. Herring was appointed to the Commission in 2021. In addition to his service to the Commission, he currently serves on the boards of Babson College and Olin College of Engineering while chairing both colleges’ endowment investment committees. Further, he is a member of the Pershing Square US mutual fund board and the Ancore Health and Fitness corporate board.

Mr. Herring previously worked at Fidelity Investments, with a successful career that spanned more than three decades. Mr. Herring retired as President of Strategic Advisers for Fidelity in 2018. As President of Strategic Advisers, Mr. Herring oversaw a team of 300 professionals focused on retail and workplace managed account solutions, wealth planning and personal trust offerings, and guidance and planning methodologies.

Attorney Louis P. Aloise was appointed to the Commission in 2023. Mr. Aloise is a Partner in the Worcester law firm of Aloise and Wilcox, P.C., where he has concentrated his practice in the areas of complex civil and criminal litigation in the Massachusetts District and Superior Courts, and in the Federal District Court, since 2002.

Mr. Aloise was previously a Partner with the law firm of Shumway, Giguere, Fox, Aloise, and Wilcox, P.C., from 1987 to 2002. There, he concentrated his work in the areas of personal injury and criminal defense. In 1993, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appointed Mr. Aloise to the first of two three-year terms as a member of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS). In November of 1997, he was elected Chair of CPCS, becoming the second Worcester-based lawyer ever to head that agency.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Aloise served as an Assistant District Attorney and Chief Trial Counsel for the Office of the Worcester County District Attorney from 1978 to 1987. During that time, he was responsible for the prosecution of major felony cases, including Homicide, Sex Offenses, Robbery, White-Collar Crime, and Organized Crime.

The Commission on Judicial Conduct is established and governed by Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 211C. In accordance with the mandate of that statute, the Commission’s mission is to enforce standards of judicial conduct for Massachusetts state judges in a manner that, while respecting judicial independence, promotes public confidence in the judiciary and preserves the integrity of the judicial process. The Commission serves as the forum for complaints alleging misconduct by judges both on and off the bench, and for allegations of mental or physical disability affecting a judge’s performance. The Commission is made up of three judges appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court, three attorneys appointed by the Chief Justice of the Trial Court, and three lay people appointed by the Governor. Members serve non-renewable terms of six years.

Please visit the Commission’s website for more information: www.mass.gov/cjc.

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