Rhode Island’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell JD’76 serves with Associate Justices Maureen McKenna Goldberg JD’78, HLLD’99, and Francis X. Flaherty JD’75. Chief Justice of the District Court is Jeanne E. LaFazia JD’80.
Judge Frank Caprio JD’65, HLLD’91, the Chief Municipal Judge in Providence, has been called a social media phenom and viral superstar by national publications profiling his court’s televised proceedings. His courtroom sessions have been viewed more than 1 billion times on social media, and he now has his own nationally syndicated TV series, Caught in Providence.
Our graduates lead other parts of the state government as well. The Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (Nicholas Mattiello JD’88), the House Majority Leader (K. Joseph Shekarchi BS’84, JD’90), and the Senate Majority Leader (Michael McCaffrey JD’89) are all Suffolk Law alumni. And Allan W. Fung JD’95, the mayor of Cranston, R.I., was the GOP candidate for governor in 2018.