The board of directors of the Worcester Center for Performing Arts, which runs The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, has elected Worcester attorney James D. O’Brien Jr. as its chairman.
O’Brien, a partner in the Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting law firm, has served as vice chair of the board for the last year and has been a board member for several years. He takes over for H. Carter Hunt, who stepped down for personal and professional reasons after seven years as chair.
O’Brien is a member of the Worcester Public Library Foundation. In the past, he served as president of the Worcester County Bar Association, a director of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, president of the Emerald Club and a member of the Governor’s Executive Council.
He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Boston College Law School.
