Challenging Judicial Independence Panel – Boston, MA

Suffolk University Law School presented an afternoon panel, Challenging Judicial Independence, Feb. 17, 2011, 4-6:30 pm. The event was sponsored with Macaronis Institute for Trial & Appellate Advocacy, Flaschner Judicial Institute, and the Masterman Institute on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. Speakers:

  • Justice John M. Greaney, Moderator – Director, Macaronis Institute for Trial & Appellate Advocacy, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (ret.)
  • Judge Gordon L. Doerfer, Past-President of the American Judicature Society, Massachusetts Superior Court and Massachusetts Appeals Court (ret.)
  • Judge Barbara Dortch-Okara, Massachusetts Superior Court, Formerly Chief Justice for Administration & Management, Trial Court of Massachusetts
  • Katherine A. Helm, JD, Ph.D., Law.Com Columnist, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, Former Law Clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court
  • Justice Michael J. Streit, Iowa Supreme Court, 2001-2010 (A concurring justice in Iowa’s unanimous gay marriage decision in 2009, he was voted out of office in 2010 retention election along with Iowa’s Chief Justice and a third Justice.)
  • Judge James H. Wexler, Massachusetts District Court

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