Daniel F. Conley
Daniel F. Conley is an American attorney and politician who served as the district attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts from 2002 to 2018. Appointed to the office in February 2002, Conley was later elected on November 5, 2002, and again in 2006, 2010, and 2014. He retired in 2018 to enter private practice. Conley placed fourth of 12 candidates when he ran unsuccessfully in the 2013 Boston mayoral election to replace Thomas Menino, garnering 11% of the vote in the preliminary election. In February 2018, Boston newspapers reported that Conley would not seek re-election to a fifth term as Suffolk DA. On September 12, 2018, Conley announced that his final day as district attorney would be September 26, as he would join Mintz Levin, a private law firm in a special counsel role. Education Conley graduated from Stonehill College, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1980 and Suffolk University Law School in 1983. Career He was appointed as an assistant district attorney by Suffolk County District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan shortly after passing the Massachusetts Bar Exam and assigned to the Boston Municipal Court. He later prosecuted juvenile cases in the Boston Juvenile Court. In