Judge David P. Sorrenti: Professional Background and Legal Expertise

Hon. David P. Sorrenti is a circuit justice for Region 1 of the Massachusetts District Court. He was appointed to the bench by Governor Charlie Baker in 2018.

While on the bench, Sorrenti has presided in the Barnstable and New Bedford District Courts in Region 1. The Region also encompasses the Bridgewater State Hospital, Edgartown, Fall River, Falmouth, Nantucket, Orleans, Plymouth, and Wareham District Courts.

Prior to his appointment, Sorrenti has been a partner at Sorrenti & Delano, P.A. since 1996. He joined the firm from Cruz, Horan & Sorrenti, P.C., where he had practiced as a partner for six years. At the firm, he handled criminal defense, divorce and probate proceedings and appellate services. In addition to his practice there, Sorrenti was appointed by former Governor Bill Weld to serve as public administrator for Plymouth County in 1991 and remained in that position until 1995.

In the public sector, he worked for five years as an assistant district attorney handling criminal matters in the Brockton, Wareham, and Plymouth District Courts with the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office. Sorrenti joined the District Attorney’s Office after serving as an intern there while in law school (1983 to 1985).

He also served as a teaching supervisor with the Voluntary Prosecutor Program at Suffolk University Law School from 1988 to 1990.

Sorrenti received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Suffolk University in 1982. He then completed a J.D. at Suffolk University Law School in 1985.

His memberships included the Plymouth County Bar Association, the Plymouth District Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, the National Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, and the Plymouth County Pilgrim Bar Advocates.

Sorrenti has served on the Special Judicial Nominating Committee for the statewide Juvenile Court, the Committee for Public Counsel (Private Division, Murder List), and the Judicial Nominating Committee for the Southeastern Regional District.

He was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts. At the time of his appointment, Sorrenti resided in Bridgewater.