Martha Sosman
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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2000 until her death in 2007.
Sosman was one of three justices to dissent in the Goodridge v. Department of Public Health case, which legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.
In April 2005, Sosman was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died of respiratory failure nearly two years later.[1] Governor Deval Patrick appointed Margot Botsford as Sosman's successor on July 26, 2007.[2]
