The former chief justice of the state Trial Court has been tapped to lead a panel that reviews possibly wrongful convictions in Suffolk County, authorities said.

Jeffrey A. Locke, who led the Massachusetts Trial Court between January 2022 and December 2023, has been appointed to serve as chief of the prosecutor’s Integrity Review Bureau, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s said.

The bureau looks at potentially tainted convictions, examining “credible” claims of innocence along with “other circumstances that may have produced an improper judicial result,” prosecutors said in a statement issued Wednesday.

Before leading the state Trial Court, Locke had served as a Superior Court judge since 2001. He presided over a number of high-profile trials in that capacity, including the 2017

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