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Governor Healy ceremonially swears in Gloria Tan and Chauncey Wood to Massachusetts Appeals Court
Summary
At a ceremony at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston, Governor Maura Healey administered the oath to Gloria Tan and Chauncey Wood, who were introduced by court and legal leaders and praised for their juvenile-court and criminal-defense experience.
At a ceremony at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston, Governor Maura Healey ceremonially swore in Gloria Tan and Chauncey Wood as associate justices of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.
The appointments add two jurists with different professional backgrounds to the appeals court bench: Tan, a longtime juvenile-court judge and former first justice of the Middlesex County Juvenile Court, and Wood, a veteran criminal defense and post-conviction attorney. The event included remarks from Chief Justice Amy Blake of the Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Dana Gershengorn of the Juvenile Court, and several colleagues and former collaborators who described the new justices’ judicial temperaments and bodies of work.
“Today, we are here to celebrate the appointments of Justices Gloria Tan and Chauncey Wood to the appeals court,” Chief Justice Amy Blake said at the ceremony, which brought together members of the state judiciary, the…
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