Profile
Sheriff Evangelidis is honored to serve in the largest county in Massachusetts with 60 towns and over 850,000 residents. Serving since 2011, Sheriff Evangelidis’ goal is to protect, serve and make a difference in the community. In addition to the day-to-day operation of the Jail & House of Correction, Sheriff Evangelidis is dedicated to the rehabilitation of inmates as well as serving the cities and towns of Worcester County. Evangelidis emphasizes the importance of drug and alcohol rehabilitation, community service programs, and preventative programs like Face2Face. He hopes that by strengthening these programs inmates will be released with the skills they need to become productive citizens, recidivism will be reduced, and our communities will be safer places to live.
Evangelidis’ previous public service includes serving as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and an Assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County, MA. Lew Evangelidis also served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 2002 – 2010, serving on the Joint Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Public Safety. Additionally, Evangelidis practiced law for over 20 years as an Associate at Wausau Insurance Company and at the law firm of Pellegrini and Seeley.
Sheriff Evangelidis attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics in 1983 and received his Juris Doctorate from Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia in 1987. Evangelidis currently serves on the Massachusetts Port Authority Board of Directors and serves on the Worcester County Opioid Task Force.