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Erin Aiello

Assistant District Attorney

Northwestern District Attorneys' Office, Massachusetts, The Humane Society of the United States


Erin Aiello has been an assistant district attorney for eight years for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Working for three different district attorney offices she has had the opportunity to serve both urban and rural communities. Officially, her primary caseload is and has been the prosecution of abuse related crimes such as child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Unofficially, Erin has been her own one-person animal cruelty unit in every office she has joined. In 2011, Erin was recognized by the Animal Control Association of Massachusetts for her work on animal cruelty cases. Even in private practice, Erin was devoted to animal cruelty welfare and was proud to as a local counsel for the ASPCA in one of the largest animal cruelty and seizure cases in New England. Currently, Erin works in the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit in the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, where she focuses primarily on the prosecution of high risk domestic violence offenders. Erin is honored to represent the Humane Society of the United States to assist in their mission to generate successful prosecutions of animal cruelty offenses. Erin lives in western Massachusetts with her 14 year old diva of a cat- Lulu Aiello.