Mark Wolf
| Mark Wolf | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #12 |
| Station: | Boston, MA |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 4/4/1985-1/1/2013 |
| Chief: | 2006-2012 |
| Senior: | 1/1/2013-present |
| 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] On January 1, 2013, Wolf assumed senior status for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts after serving on the court for 27 years.[4]
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 was convicted on corruption charges in June 2011. He was found guilty of seven of nine charges, including conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion. [5] He was sentenced to eight years in prison as a result of the conviction. [6] In August 2012, DiMasi's attorneys filed an appeal of the conviction, stating that the prosecution did not prove that DiMasi "knowingly" accepted bribes. [7] |
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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| Mark Wolf has granted inmate Michelle Kosilek a taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery. Wolf wrote in his ruling on September 4, 2012 that "there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care."[8]
Kosilek sued in 2000 and again in 2005 on grounds the State of Massachusetts violated her constitutional rights. Attorneys for the Massachusetts Attorney General felt that the after-effects of the surgery could cause security problems. They said that the surgery would make Kosilek target for sexual assault in the all-male prison. Wolf noted that the Department of Correction's medical officers testified that the surgery was the only adequate treatment.[9][8] Kosilek was born a man, but has taken hormone treatments and currently lives as a woman. Formerly known as Robert, she was convicted of murdering Cheryl Kosilek, her wife, in 1990. She is serving a life term.[8] Update: On December 19, 2012, Judge Wolf ruled that more than $700,000 were due in attorney's fees for Kosilek.[10] In his December 19th ruling, Wolf noted that Kosilek’s legal team has offered to forgo legal fees, if the Department of Corrections drop their appeal and moves forward with Kosilek’s gender re-assignment surgery.[10] Wolf was critical of the Department of Corrections in his ruling from the bench, saying, “The repeated violation of constitutional rights of prisoners…costs taxpayers money that is needed for other purposes.”[10] |
See also
External links
- Judge Mark Wolf Federal Judicial Biography
- The Boston Globe, "Notable cases in the judicial career of Mark L. Wolf," October 16, 2012
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Judge Mark Wolf Federal Judicial Biography
- ↑ U.S. Courts Current Vacancies
- ↑ The Associated Press, "Chief Judge Mark Wolf to take senior status," October 16, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Courts Current Vacancies
- ↑ Metro Boston, "Sal DiMasi convicted of conspiracy, extortion, fraud," June 15, 2011
- ↑ BostonHerald.com, "Sal DiMasi sentenced to 8 years in prison on corruption charges," September 9, 2011
- ↑ Boston.com, "Former House speaker Sal DiMasi appeals corruption conviction in federal court, August 21, 2012
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Associated Press, "Judge: Mass. must pay for killer's sex change", September 4, 2012
- ↑ "Boston Herald" Judge to hear arguments in inmate’s sex-change, December 21, 2009
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Boston.com "Judge: State must pay more than $700,000 in legal fees to attorneys of convicted murder who wants sex change", December 19, 2012
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| Preceded by: NA - new seat |
District of Massachusetts 1985–2013 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 | ||
