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Reigning supreme
Clerk-magistrates, with lifetime tenure and no
mandatory retirement age, rule the roost in Massachusetts courthouses.
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/reigning-supreme/Clerks also hire their assistants, many of whom are top-notch administrators. But the clerk and assistant clerk ranks also include people with strong political connections. Stephen Leduc, who represented Marlborough in the Legislature, is now an assistant clerk in Marlborough District Court. Raymond J. Salmon Jr., whose namesake was a clerk-magistrate in Clinton, is First Assistant Clerk in Leominster District Court. Robert Tomasone, clerk-magistrate in Somerville District Court, is the brother of retired Suffolk County assistant clerk Anthony Tomasone.