After eight years on the Superior Court bench, Judge Thomas Drechsler is due to retire on March 15, according to the governor's judicial nominations office, creating the second court vacancy of Gov. Maura T. Healey's administration -- and without a mechanism in place to start putting new judges in robes. Healey has yet to name
Judge Margaret Guzman appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 21, 2022. (SCREENSHOT) The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 2 advanced President Joe Biden's nomination of a state District Court judge to take a seat on the federal bench. The committee's 11-9 vote sends the nomination of Judge Margaret Guzman to the
Gov. Maura T. Healey gaveled the Governor's Council into its new session on Jan. 25, and while this week's workload was light, councilors are already looking ahead to the judicial nomination process that is just around the corner. While the lieutenant governor normally presides over council meetings, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll was out of state
The Governor's Council will meet this week for its first formal session since the swearing-in of Gov. Maura T. Healey, welcoming a new councilor from Western Massachusetts while the seat formerly held by Councilor Robert L. Jubinville remains vacant. With new judicial nominations not yet flowing from the Healey administration, the council has other constitutional
With Councilor Robert L. Jubinville confirmed to a court clerkship, it is now up to the Legislature whether more than 870,000 constituents in Jubinville's district -- which stretches from Attleboro to Milton and from Ashland to Brockton -- will have any representation on the Governor's Council for the next two years. After his colleagues confirmed
With the lieutenant governor's family members and a councilor's pet Scottie dog in the chamber, the Governor's Council sped through Gov. Charlie Baker's final judicial nominees on Dec. 27, more than a week before Baker's term ends. Baker's final appointee to cross the finish line was Councilor Robert L. Jubinville. Baker tapped the Milton Democrat
Gov. Charlie Baker on Dec. 22 tapped an assistant clerk for a permanent posting as clerk-magistrate of Ipswich District Court. Rachel M. Hickey, a former Essex County prosecutor in the 1990s, also spent two years in Gov. Jane M. Swift's administration as deputy general counsel at the Executive Office of Public Safety. Hickey has been