Editing Middlesex County, Massachusetts (section)

===Administrative structure today===
Records of land ownership in Middlesex County continue to be maintained at the two Registries of Deeds. Besides the Sheriff and the two Registers of Deeds, the Middlesex District Attorney, the Middlesex Register of Probate and the Middlesex Clerk of Courts (which were already part of state government before the abolition of Middlesex County government) are all elected countywide to six-year terms.

In Middlesex County (as in the entirety of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), the governmental functions such as property tax assessment and collection, public education, road repair and maintenance, and elections were all conducted at the municipal city and town level and not by the county government.

In 2012 the 22-story Superior Court Building in Cambridge which was transferred from the abolished Executive County government was sold<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baldassari |first=Erin |date=December 17, 2012 |title=Leggat McCall wins bid for Sullivan Courthouse redevelopment in Cambridge |publisher=WickedLocal |agency=[[GateHouse Media|GateHouse Media, LLC]] |url=http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/x1107423193/Leggat-McCall-wins-bid-for-Sullivan-Courthouse-redevelopment-in-Cambridge |url-access=subscription |access-date=December 17, 2012 |quote=Leggat McCall Properties was selected from a pool of seven bidders to redevelop the 22-story, 600,000-square-foot EJ Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge, the state announced Friday, Dec. 14. |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130014120/http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/x1107423193/Leggat-McCall-wins-bid-for-Sullivan-Courthouse-redevelopment-in-Cambridge |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Parker |first=Brock |date=November 16, 2011 |title=State advertising 22-story Sullivan Courthouse, seeking to sell by September |publisher=[[Boston.com|Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC]] |url=http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2011/11/state_advertising_22-story_sul.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 10, 2018 |quote=State officials are advertising for a buyer for the 22-story, asbestos-plagued Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in Cambridge and hope to move prisoners housed in county jail at the facility to another location by the spring of 2013. |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091232/http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2011/11/state_advertising_22-story_sul.html |url-status=live }}</ref> by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ansari, Esq. |first=Maryam K. |date=December 19, 2012 |title=Cambridge Residents Contesting Plans for Sullivan Courthouse |work=FindLaw Network |publisher=Boston Real Estate Law News |agency=Thomson Reuters |url=http://bostonrealestatelawnews.com/2012/12/cambridge-residents-contesting-plans-for-sullivan-courthouse.html |access-date=February 10, 2018 |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130014347/http://bostonrealestatelawnews.com/2012/12/cambridge-residents-contesting-plans-for-sullivan-courthouse.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to its transfer from state control,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goodison |first=Donna |date=July 20, 2017 |title=Cambridge courthouse judged fit for redo |work=[[The Boston Herald|Boston Herald and Herald Media]] |url=http://www.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2017/07/cambridge_courthouse_judged_fit_for_redo |access-date=February 10, 2018 |quote=The Appeals Court upheld a 2015 Land Court decision that determined the former Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse, when transferred from state ownership to private ownership under Boston developer Leggat McCall Properties, would still be considered a legal, preexisting nonconforming structure despite losing its government immunity from zoning rules. |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145429/http://www.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2017/07/cambridge_courthouse_judged_fit_for_redo |url-status=live }}</ref> many local residents had tried to force the private developers to reduce the overall height of the structure.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chesto |first=Jon |date=August 8, 2017 |title=A towering dilemma in East Cambridge |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/talking-points/2017/08/08/towering-dilemma-east-cambridge/c2wZnnDecPvEiiHSoyH7EK/story.html |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811191556/http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/talking-points/2017/08/08/towering-dilemma-east-cambridge/c2wZnnDecPvEiiHSoyH7EK/story.html |archive-date=August 11, 2017 |quote=The developers who want to remodel the imposing former courthouse tower in East Cambridge and enliven its ground floor had hoped an appeals court decision last month was the final green light they needed.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff writer |date=July 20, 2017 |title=40 Thorndike Street |url=http://www.bldup.com/projects/40-thorndike-street |access-date=February 10, 2018 |website=Bldup.com |publisher=BLDUP |quote=Upcoming mixed-use development located steps from Kendall Square that will transform the existing 22-story Sullivan Courthouse and Middlesex Jail tower in East Cambridge into a 20-story mixed-use tower. The new 40 Thorndike Street will feature approximately 430,000 square feet of office, research & development space and 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, along with 24 apartment residences on lower floors. Lower office floors will be marketed to startup companies as innovation space. Retail will include a grocery store and a health club; a daycare could be included as well. |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130013843/http://www.bldup.com/projects/40-thorndike-street |url-status=live }}</ref>

Even following the abolition of the executive branch for county government in Middlesex, communities are still granted a right by the Massachusetts state legislature to form their own regional compacts for sharing of services and costs thereof.

{| class="toccolours"
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|+ '''County government: Middlesex County'''
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[Court clerk|Clerk of Courts]]:
| [[Michael A. Sullivan (politician)|Michael A. Sullivan]]
|- valign=top
! align=right |  [[District attorney|District Attorney]]:
| [[Marian T. Ryan]]
|- valign=top
! align=right |  [[Recorder of deeds|Register of Deeds]]:
| Richard P. Howe, Jr. (North at Lowell)<br /> Maria C. Curtatone (South at Cambridge)
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[Probate|Register of Probate]]:
| Tara E. DeCristofaro
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[Sheriff|County Sheriff]]:
| [[Peter Koutoujian|Peter J. Koutoujian]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://middlesexsheriff.org/Biography.html|title=Peter J. Koutoujian : Biography|date=December 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209050852/http://middlesexsheriff.org/Biography.html |accessdate=July 23, 2022|archive-date=December 9, 2013 }}</ref>
|- 
! colspan=2 | State government
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[Massachusetts House of Representatives|State Representative(s)]]:
| 37 Representatives<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/repdis03.htm |title=Representative Districts |access-date=June 10, 2007 |archive-date=May 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070530193736/http://www.mass.gov/legis/repdis03.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[Massachusetts Senate|State Senator(s)]]:
| 16 Senators<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/sendis03.htm |title=Massachusetts General Court &ndash; Senatorial Districts |access-date=June 10, 2007 |archive-date=March 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304165150/http://www.mass.gov/legis/sendis03.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[Massachusetts Governor's Council|Governor's Councilor(s)]]:
| [[Robert L. Jubinville]] (D-2nd district)<br />[[Marilyn M. Petitto]] (D-3rd district)<br />[[Eileen R. Duff]] (D-5th district)<br />[[Terrence W. Kennedy]] (D-6th district)<br />[[Paul DePalo]] (D-7th district)
|-
! colspan=2 | Federal government
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative(s)]]:
| [[Jake Auchincloss]] (D-{{ushr|MA|4|C}})<br /> [[Lori Trahan]] (D-{{ushr|MA|3|C}})<br /> [[Seth Moulton]] (D-{{ushr|MA|6|C}})<br /> [[Katherine Clark]] (D-{{ushr|MA|5|C}})<br /> [[Ayanna Pressley]] (D-{{ushr|MA|7|C}})
|- valign=top
! align=right | [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]]:
| [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D), [[Ed Markey]] (D)
|}