Beverly Cannone Biography – Beverly Cannone Wiki

Beverly Cannone serves as a judge at the Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. Her appointment to this position was made by former Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick, a Democrat, on April 16, 2014, and the nomination subsequently received approval from the Governor’s Council on May 7, 2014.

In 1982, Cannone completed her undergraduate studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, as noted in her profile featured on Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She pursued further education at the New England School of Law, obtaining her Juris Doctor in 1985.

Following law school, Cannone embarked on her legal career as a staff attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services, a role she held from 1985 to 2010. During this time, she managed more than 50 jury trials in the superior courts across Middlesex, Plymouth, and Norfolk counties, and handled over 100 jury and non-jury cases in both Middlesex and Norfolk counties.

In 1990, Cannone became a certified member of the CPCS Murder Team and in 1992 she became supervising attorney in CPCS Dedham office. In 2006, she became Attorney-In-Charge of the CPCS Dedham office.

Cannone was nominated as a judge in Quincy District Court by former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in 2009, to fill a vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Warren A. Powers. Five years later in 2014, Patrick nominated her to the Norfolk Superior Court.

Judge Cannone is the chair of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure. She has been a teaching team member of Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop for over 20 years. In 2009, she served on a Massachusetts Bar Association Task Force on jury selection issues.

Beverly Cannone Age

Judge Beverly Cannone was born in 1961 in Quincy, Massachusetts, to parents Gertrude and John Prescott.

Beverly Cannone Husband

Judge Beverly Cannone is married to Frank Cannone.

Beverly Cannone Family

Beverly Cannone is the daughter of the late Gertrude and John Prescott. According to The Patriot Ledger, Cannone’s father, the late John Prescott, was a Norfolk County prosecutor in the early 1970s and later a public defender who ran the Boston office of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee.

Her mother, the late Gertrude Prescott, worked in the Quincy Public School system, according to an obituary published in The Patriot Ledger. She was also active in the Quincy Teen Mother Program at the Bethany Congregational Church, which allowed teen mothers to get a high school diploma outside of school. Gertrude died on November 4, 2021, at the age of 86.

Cannone is one of six children. Her siblings are John C. Prescott, Jr., Esq., LTC Glen T. Prescott, U.S. Army (retired), Dean L. Prescott, Sharon Healy Mahoney, and the late Lori Prescott Carta.

Beverly Cannone Children

Judge Beverly Cannone and her husband Frank Cannone live in Norwell. They have not revealed any information about their children.

Beverly Cannone Salary

Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone receives an annual salary of $226,187.

Karen Read Trial

Judge Cannone is presiding over the trial of Karen Read. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV outside a Canton home in 2022. Cannone oversaw Read’s first trial, which ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury. The second trial is now underway in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Honors

In 2008, Cannone won the Edward J. Duggan Award given by CPCS for outstanding advocacy on behalf of indigent clients. The award is given to “criminal defense attorneys who demonstrate exceptional skill, determination, compassion, and courage while zealously representing indigent clients,” according to the CPCS website.

In 2002, Cannone received the Access to Justice Defender of the Year Award, and in 2008 she was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, where she is currently a fellow.