O'Brien, Eileen

Official Record

• Year Started Current Position 2018
• Years in Current Position 9
• Job Description The mission of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is to create and maintain a fair, transparent, and participatory process for implementing the expanded gaming law passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor in November, 2011. The Commissioners and all employees of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission are committed to public service and to a set of core values that will underpin and guide our work. MGC’s Enhanced Code of Ethics is to help ensure the highest level of public confidence in the integrity of the regulation of all gaming activities in the Commonwealth.

Personal Information

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Education & Career

• Education
  • Middlebury College, Northeastern University School of Law
• Previous Employment
  • O’Brien served as Director of the Audit, Oversight and Investigations Division of the Inspector General’s Office
  • spent five years as Senior Trial Counsel for the Criminal Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
  • served in various positions within the Special Investigations and Narcotics Division at the AG’s Office, including chief of the division from April 2004 to July 2008. Following law school, she was a law clerk at Massachusetts Superior Court and served as an assistant district attorney at the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
  • In 2015, O’Brien received the Manuel Carballo Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service along with the Inspector General’s Westfield State University Investigation Team. She has also previously received a Special Achievement Award from the New England Narcotic Enforcement Officers’ Association in 2004, and the Scott Harshbarger Award for Excellence in 2003.