Patricia Mador
The National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators has selected Patricia Mador, assistant district attorney for the Androscoggin County District Attorney’s Office, as the recipient of its 2023 National Traffic Safety Prosecutor of the Year Award.
NAPC, in cooperation with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, presents this annual award to an outstanding prosecutor who has worked tirelessly to prosecute impaired driving and vehicular homicide cases, according to a news release from the association.
A prosecutor for more than three decades, Mador has handled a range of criminal cases from traffic infractions to vehicular manslaughter, preparing about 450 cases for jury trial throughout her career. She handles all the operating under the influence cases and serious vehicular injury and vehicular manslaughter cases within Androscoggin County.
“Pat is an institution among this profession,” Kate Bozeman, deputy district attorney of Prosecutorial District III, said. “She is widely known and accepted throughout the state as being the premier OUI and serious motor vehicle case prosecutor.”
Mador comes from a long line of public safety professionals. Her grandfather and her father were law enforcement officers with the New York Police Department.
She received her juris doctor from Maine Law in 1980. During law school, Mador interned in the office of District Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II. Through his leadership, she learned the importance of enforcing impaired driving laws and how critical the need was for prosecutors to take on these complex cases and hold offenders accountable.
“I have always had a keen interest in impaired driving and traffic cases,” Mador said. “Because you can have an immediate and measurable impact on public safety.”
Throughout her career, Mador has assisted in training hundreds of law enforcement officers in best practices for impaired driving investigations.
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