Sookyoung Shin
Sookyoung Shin is an associate justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court.[1] She was appointed to this court in July 2016 by Republican Governor Charlie Baker. Her term expires when she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70.
Education
Shin received her bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1996 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999.[2]
Career
Shin practiced law for a year for Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner in Washington, D.C., practicing patent litigation. She then served first as a staff law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then as a law clerk for Honorable Joel Flaum of that court. In 2003, she began practicing law with the firm of Kirkland & Ellis. From 2005, Shin served as an assistant attorney general in the Administrative Law Division.[2]
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Officeholder Massachusetts Appeals Court |
Footnotes
Federal courts:
First Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Massachusetts • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Massachusetts
State courts:
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court • Massachusetts Appeals Court • Massachusetts Superior Courts • Massachusetts District Courts • Massachusetts Housing Courts • Massachusetts Juvenile Courts • Massachusetts Land Courts • Massachusetts Probate and Family Courts • Boston Municipal Courts, Massachusetts
State resources:
Courts in Massachusetts • Massachusetts judicial elections • Judicial selection in Massachusetts
