Hon. Patrick S. Sabbs is an associate justice of the Springfield District Court in Massachusetts. He was appointed to the bench by Governor Charlie Baker in 2015.
Sabbs attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received a B.A. in communication studies in 1984. After graduating from university, he spent the next several years working as a television director and producer at WWLP-22News in Chicopee. He went on to complete a J.D. at Western New England College School of Law in 1996.
He began his legal career as an assistant district attorney with the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office. During his tenure there, Sabbs held assignments in the Springfield District Court (1996 to 1999), the Superior Court Special Victims’ Unit (1999 to 2011), and the Superior Court Public Protection Unit (2011 to 2015). He prosecuted major felony matters including sexual assault, homicide and felonious assault cases.
Sabb departed the District Attorney’s Office in 2015 to join the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where he served as an assistant attorney general in the Criminal Bureau of the Western Mass Regional Office until his appointment to the District Court bench later that same year.
His memberships included the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Hampden County Bar Association.
Sabb has served as a volunteer head coach for the South Hadley Youth Football Association and has been a member of the Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections and the American Philatelic Society.