A. David & Eleanor S. Mazzone Fund

A. David Mazzone, a United States District Judge and resident of Wakefield, was a precedent setting and influential judge. He was born in Everett on June 3, 1928 and attended Everett public schools. Judge Mazzone went on to graduate from Harvard College and DePaul University School of Law. During the Korean Conflict, he served in the U.S. Army. A longtime leader in both the courtroom and the classroom, Mazzone taught at many local universities and law schools, including Boston College, Boston University and Suffolk Law Schools, and at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. Judge Mazzone was also the recipient of many distinguished honors and awards but the people of Massachusetts will forever remember him for his landmark rulings that led to the cleanup of Boston Harbor. The Harbor was in such bad shape at the start of the suit that President George H.W. Bush called it “the filthiest harbor in America.” An unusual trait for a Judge, Mazzone was a consensus builder who preferred to persuade people to do the right thing, rather than order them to. Judge Mazzone oversaw the case beginning in the early 1980s until his death on October 25, 2004.