Ronald A. Valcourt, clerk-magistrate for the city’s District Court for the past decade and a court official for the past 20 years, will retire at the end of next week, he announced.
He is completing a 28-year career in government service that includes his early years as former Mayor Carlton M. Viveiros’ first administrative assistant from 1978 to 1980.
In 1999, after 10 years as District Court assistant clerk-magistrate and acting first-assistant clerk, Gov. A. Paul Cellucci appointed him to head the court, succeeding the late Thomas Kitchen.
The office, like a judgeship, is a lifetime appointment, overseeing the wide range of court functions.
Several years after passing the Massachusetts Bar Examination and graduating from Suffolk University Law School in 1984, Valcourt had the distinction of being admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court as part of a small group of Suffolk alumni.
Valcourt, 68, also graduated from Bryant College with a business [...]

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