William J. Geary
Bill Geary is a Boston native who grew up in Roxbury and Dorchester and summered in Southie as a boy. He is a product of the city’s many great institutions – English High, UMass Boston, (BS Political Science and American History), Northeastern University (MA Public Management and American Government), and JD Suffolk Law School.
Bill was the chairman of the Metropolitan District Commission and commissioner of the Metro Police, New England’s 3rd largest Police force. The MDC is one the nation’s premier public services agencies, providing over 6000 acres of parklands in Boston as part of Olmstead’s Emerald Necklace and throughout 50 communities in the metro region including the Boston Harbor Islands, the famous Esplanade on the Charles River, numerous woodland reservations along with 650 miles of parkways, the region’s two zoos, numerous reservoirs and dams and water and sewer services.
Bill left state government to become executive VP/general counsel for Clean Harbors Environmental Services, North America’s largest environmental clean-up company where he later became president of Clean Harbors Development LLC, to develop solar energy at the company’s facilities. After 30 years at CLH, Bill returned to public service where he currently serves as special counsel to the mayor of Quincy, MA, overseeing the city’s downtown redevelopment program.