Another installment in our Lowell Lists series. Here is the roster of elected officials who have held the Middlesex County offices of Sheriff, District Attorney, Clerk of Courts, Register of Probate, and Register of Deeds from 1970 to the present. The date that precedes each name is the year that individual first took office.

Sheriff

1948 – Howard W. Fitzpatrick
1970 – John J Buckley
1980 – Edward Henneberry
1985 – John McGonigle
1995 – Brad Bailey (appointed to fill vacancy)
1996 – James DiPaola
2010 – Peter Koutoujian

District Attorney

1970 – John J. Droney
1982 – L. Scott Harshbarger
1990 – Thomas Reilly
1998 – Martha Coakley
2006 – Gerard T. Leone Jr.
2014 – Marian T. Ryan

Clerk of Courts

1970 – Edward J. Sullivan
2006 – Michael A. Sullivan

Register of Probate

1972 – John V. Harvey
1978 – Paul Cavanaugh
1989 – Thomas Larkin (appointed to fill vacancy)
1990 – Donna Lambert
1996 – Robert Antonelli
1999 – Lee Johnson (appointed to fill vacancy)
2000 – John Buonomo
2008 – Tara DeCristofaro

Register of Deeds

1970 – Frederick J. Finnegan
1976 – Edward J. Early
1994 – Richard P. Howe Jr.