Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden has named Migdalia Iris Nalls as chief of the office›s juvenile unit. Nalls has served as a trial attorney in the Committee for Public Counsel Services Youth Advocacy Division since 2016, according to Hayden’s office.

From 2014 to 2016, Nalls was a staff attorney at South Coastal Counties Legal Services. He previously served in the DA’s office, first as a prosecutor in the Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court from 2007 to 2011, and then as a member of the juvenile unit from 2011 to 2014. He also served as president of the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys in 2017.

Nalls grew up in Grove Hall and attended English High School. He is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School.