District Attorney Flynn appointed Mara McCabe to serve as Deputy District Attorney-Training, a new role under his leadership team, in August 2021. Deputy DA McCabe oversees the Community Prosecution and Training Bureau, which is responsible for all of the office's training and special projects.
Deputy DA McCabe has served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Erie County District Attorney’s Office since 2005. She has prosecuted thousands of criminal cases during her career, including crimes against children while working in the office’s Special Victims Bureau (now the Special Victims/Domestic Violence Bureau). McCabe was previously appointed as a Chief to lead the Buffalo City Court Bureau and the Felony Trials Bureau where she was responsible for overseeing the caseloads of newly appointed Assistant District Attorneys.
In 2019, District Attorney Flynn established the Community Prosecution and Training Bureau to manage all legal training for the office, which Deputy DA McCabe has led since its inception. McCabe implemented protocol and procedure changes in our office to comply with newly enacted criminal justice legislation. She provided training for prosecutors and law enforcement in Erie County on bail, discovery and other reforms. She has also represented our office in statewide committees and community forums on the criminal justice reform legislation.
In 2020, Deputy DA McCabe received the “Law Enforcement Achievement Award” from the Erie County Law Enforcement Foundation Award for her work in preparing our office and local law enforcement for criminal justice reforms that went into effect in January of that year.
Deputy DA McCabe currently serves on the board for Continuing Legal Education program, which provides in-house legal training for prosecutors in New York State.
Deputy DA McCabe received her Juris Doctor degree from State University of New York at Buffalo Law School in 2003. Prior to joining our office, Deputy DA McCabe was an attorney at Hogan Willig, PLLC where her work focused on personal injury and medical malpractice cases.