Kevin Michael Burke[1] (born December 7, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts.

[2][3] He then graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal sciences in 1968[4] and from Boston College Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1971.

[6][7] After leaving the Essex County District Attorney's Office he practiced law with Burke & Mawn Consultants and later Gadsby Hannah LLP.

[6] On April 27, 2018, the Massachusetts State Police released its own report on the investigation and review of the scandal involving a redacted police report for the arrest of a judge's daughter and the discipline of two state troopers.

[9] Burke along with Nancy McGillivray, former United States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts concluded that former State Police Colonel Richard McKeon used "flawed judgment" in ordering the redaction of the arrest report.