Mark Wolf
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| Mark Wolf | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
| Title: | Chief Judge |
| Position: | Seat #12 |
| Station: | Boston, MA |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 4/4/1985 - Current |
| Chief: | 2006 - Current |
| Preceded by: | 98 Stat. 333 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1946 |
| Home State: | Boston, MA |
| Bachelors: | Yale U., B.A., 1968 |
| Law School: | Harvard U. Law, J.D., 1971 |
| Military service: | U.S. Army Reserve, 1969-1975 |
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Early life and education
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Wolf graduated from Yale University with his Bachelor's degree in 1968 and received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1971. Wolf also served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1969 to 1975.[1]
Legal career
Wolf was a private practice attorney in Washington, DC from 1971 to 1974. Wolf was a Special Assistant to U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Lawrence Silberman, in the United States Department of Justice from 1974 to 1975 and for U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi until 1977. He was a private practice attorney in Massachusetts from 1977 to 1981. Wolf served as a Deputy U.S. Attorney and Chief of Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts from 1981 to 1985. He has taught as a Lecturer for Harvard Law School from 1989 to 1990 and for Boston College Law School in 1992.[1]
Judicial career
District of Massachusetts
Wolf was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts by President Ronald Reagan on March 8, 1985 to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333, which was approved by Congress. Wolf was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 3, 1985 on a Senate vote and received commission on April 4, 1985. Wolf has served as the Chief Judge of the Court since 2006.[1]
Notable cases
Salvatore DiMasi case
| United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts *USA v. DiMasi et al 1:09-cr-10166-MLW-1 |
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| Former Massaschusetts House of Representatives Speaker Salvatore DiMasi is facing trial over corruption charges of steering software contracts for personal gain. On March 24, 2010, Judge Wolf dismissed a motion from DiMasi's attorneys to dismiss the charges over a claim of evidence that should not have been placed in the grand jury indictment. However, Judge Wolf expressed concern that some of the evidence in the indictment could lead to a mistrial[2] |
Prisoner sex change
| United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts *Kosilek v. Department of Corr, et al 1:2000-cv-12455 |
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| Michelle Kosilek has petitioned Judge Wolf to allow the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to grant a sex-change surgery funded by taxpayer expense.
Kosilek sued in 2000 on grounds the State of Massachusetts violated her constitutional rights, while attorneys for the Massachusetts Attorney General feel the after-effects of the surgery could cause security problems. No decision has been made on whether to grant the surgery[3]. |
John ID Pending Criminal Case
| United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts *USA v. Robinson USDC, MD Cr. Case No. 08-10309 -MLW |
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| On July 17, 2009, federal probation officers asked Judge Wolf to intervene in the case of Michelle Robinson. Robinson, a former escort, pleaded guilty in February of 2009 on wire fraud charges. As part of her plea agreement, Robinson was on three years of supervised release. On May 1, 2009, Judge Wolf revoked her supervised release and ordered her to move into a halfway house. [4] After moving into the halfway house, authorities raised questions of Robinson obtaining a loan to attend beauty school in Boston. Robinson's plea agreement prohibits her from obtaining any line of credit. Attorneys for Robinson have filed a motion to the judge to allow her to obtain a loan. [4] |
See also
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Judge Mark Wolf Federal Judicial Biography
- ↑ Canadian Business "Federal judge won't dismiss corruption charges against ex-Massachusetts House Speaker", March 25, 2010
- ↑ "Boston Herald" Judge to hear arguments in inmate’s sex-change, December 21, 2009
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Boston Herald" Feds turn to judge on hooker, July 19, 2009
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA - new seat | District of Massachusetts 1985–present Seat #12 | Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
