West Roxbury Resident Named Chairman of State Parole Board

Paul Treseler, a resident of West Roxbury and longtime Suffolk Country prosecutor, was recently named chairman of the Massachusetts Parole Board. Treseler was confirmed by the Governor’s Council last week.

“Treseler’s impressive track record of leadership will be an asset to an agency that is critically important to our dual goals of bolstering reentry programs and lowering the rate of recidivism in the Commonwealth,” said Governor Baker. “I am pleased to congratulate Paul and thank the Governor’s Council for approving this important appointment.”

The seven members of the Parole Board are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Governor’s Council. Members are appointed for five year terms or to fill the unexpired term of a prior member. Board members serve on a full time basis. The Governor designates one member of the Board as the Chairman, who acts as the executive and administrative head of the Board.

Treseler has served for more than 19 years as a prosecutor in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, supervising death investigations and murder trials before the Suffolk District and Superior Courts in coordination with state, local, and federal law enforcement authorities.

Among Treseler’s cases as a supervisor and investigator with the Suffolk DA’s Office, were the MBTA Green Line “Texting” crash, the fatal Boston Fire Department Ladder 26 tragedy, and the Commonwealth’s “drug lab” crisis.