Upon graduating law school in 1973,Botsford served as a law clerk to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis J. Quirico. She subsequently served as an Assistant Attorney General under Attorney GeneralFrancis X. Bellotti for four years. She later served as an assistant district attorney in the office of Middlesex County District Attorney Scott Harshbarger for six years.
Botsford practiced law in the private sector as an associate at the firm of Hill &Barlow for one year before going on to serve as a partner at Rosenfeld,Botsford &Krokidas,a Boston law firm,for three years.
Botsford during her swearing-in ceremony to the Supreme Judicial Court
In 1989,Botsford was appointed as an associate justice of the Superior Court,where she served for eighteen years until her appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court after the death of Justice Martha B. Sosman.
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