William David Delahunt was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2011. Delahunt did not seek re-election in 2010,and left Congress in January 2011. He was succeeded by Norfolk County District Attorney Bill Keating.
Thomas Michael "Tom" Finneran,is a radio talk host and former Massachusetts Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from April 1996 to September 2004. He represented the district that included parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester,Mattapan and Hyde Park as well as parts of the town of Milton for 26 years.
Paul Grattan Kirk Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 2009 to 2010,having been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ted Kennedy. From 1985 to 1989,he chaired the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Martha Mary Coakley is an American lobbyist,lawyer,and former politician who served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. Prior to serving as Attorney General,she was District Attorney of Middlesex County from 1999 to 2007.
Sandra Lea Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that court. Lynch served as chief judge of the First Circuit from 2008 to 2015.
Francis Cabot Lowell was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the First Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Maria Lopez is a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist on the syndicated court show,Judge Maria Lopez.
Nancy Gertner is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She assumed senior status on May 22,2011,and retired outright from the federal bench on September 1,2011. She is now a professor of practice at Harvard Law School.
Edward Francis Harrington is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Mark Lawrence Wolf is a Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and founder and chair of Integrity Initiatives International.
Douglas Preston Woodlock is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut,Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating,Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at Goodwin,Procter &Hoar,and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986,Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.
Dermot James Meagher was an American lawyer and former judge of the Boston Municipal Court. Meagher was the first openly gay judge appointed in Massachusetts.
The judiciary of Massachusetts is the branch of the government of Massachusetts that interprets and applies the law of Massachusetts,ensures equal justice under law,and provides a mechanism for dispute resolution. The judicial power in Massachusetts is reposed in the Supreme Judicial Court,which superintends the entire system of courts.
Richard R. Silva was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and mayor of Gloucester,Massachusetts.
Cornelius Francis Kiernan was an American politician and judge who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a special justice in the Somerville and Lowell District Courts.
Jerome Patrick Troy was an American jurist who served as Judge of the Dorchester District Court from 1962 until he was removed from the bench in 1973.
Edward Joseph DeSaulnier Jr. was an American politician and judge from the commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1949 to 1957,in the Massachusetts Senate from 1957 to 1958,and on the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1958 to 1972. His son,Mark DeSaulnier,is a member of the United States House of Representatives from California.
Richard King Donahue was an American lawyer,political staffer,and business executive. Doanhue also worked as a political confidant and staffer to President John F. Kennedy and to his brothers,Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. From 1977 through 2008,he worked as a member of the corporate leadership board of Nike,Inc. He also was well-involved in a number of non-profits.
Gardner Whitman Pearson was an American military officer and politician who served as Adjutant General of Massachusetts from 1911 to 1914 and 1916 to 1917.
