William Meade
William J. Meade is an associate justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the intermediate appellate court for the state of Massachusetts. He was appointed to this position by Governor Mitt Romney on December 22, 2006.[1]
Education
Meade earned his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986 and his J.D. from Western New England College School of Law in 1989.[1]
Career
Meade began his legal career in 1989 as an assistant district attorney for the Eastern District of Massachusetts. He was an appellate attorney with that office until 1992, when he became assistant attorney general in the Appellate Division of the Criminal Bureau. He was elevated to chief of the Appellate Division in 2000. From 2003 to 2005, he was deputy chief legal counsel to Governor Mitt Romney and from 2005 to 2006, he was legal counsel to the commonwealth's 11 district attorneys. He has also lectured at Harvard Law School and has worked as editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Law Review.[1]
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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
