Governor Healey Appoints Aladdine Joroff as Massachusetts Climate Chief, Succeeding Melissa Hoffer
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced in Boston on November 10, 2026, the appointment of Aladdine Joroff as Massachusetts Climate Chief, effective the same day. Joroff had been serving as Deputy Climate Chief and Director of Mitigation and Community Resilience in the Governor's Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience.
Joroff succeeds Melissa Hoffer, the state's inaugural climate chief since January 2023, who stepped down on November 9 and becomes president of Vermont Law and Graduate School on December 1. Healey created the post by executive order on her first day in office in 2023, the nation's first cabinet-level climate chief, charged with coordinating climate policy across every state secretariat.
Joroff joined the Healey administration in August 2024 after serving as the City of Boston's director of climate policy, and has also been a visiting lecturer on environmental science and public policy at Harvard. As deputy, she led mitigation and community resilience work, including extreme weather readiness and adaptation in vulnerable communities.
Healey said the climate office's whole-of-government approach now reaches housing, transportation and energy policy, and that Joroff's task is to carry it forward in her second term, including energy affordability and grid modernization. Healey was re-elected in the November midterm elections.
Under the founding executive order, the climate chief reports directly to the governor and can require agencies to weigh climate impact in major decisions. Joroff is the second person to hold the position.
Source: Office of the Governor of Massachusetts
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