Margot Botsford

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Margot Botsford is a justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Governor Deval Patrick appointed Justice Botsford to succeed Martha Sosman on July 26, 2007.[1] She took office on September 4, 2007[2] and her term ends in 2017, when she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Biography

Justice Botsford was born on March 16, 1947 in New York City. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard College in 1969 and her J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 1973. In 2007, she earned an M.P.A. degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. [3]

Legal career

Justice Botsford began her career as a law clerk to Justice Francis Quirico of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She worked for four years as an Assistant Attorney General and then for six years as an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County. She then worked in private practice, spending one year with the firm Hill & Barlow and three years as a partner of the firm Rosenfeld, Botsford & Krokidas. She was appointed to the Superior Court in 1989 where she served 18 years. She was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court in 2007.[3]

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