Jennifer Pease has been appointed the new chief probation officer at Edgartown and Nantucket district courts.

The appointment was announced last week by Massachusetts commissioner of probation Edward J. Dolan. Ms. Pease assumed her new role on May 16; she is one of nine newly-appointed chief probation officers in the commonwealth.

She will manage operations at both Island probation departments, including a staff of two probation officers and two support staff in Edgartown and one probation officer and one support employee in Nantucket.

Ms. Pease began working with the Massachusetts Trial Court in 1995 and most recently worked as a probation officer at Barnstable Superior Court.