Robert A. Cornetta

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Robert A. Cornetta

Prior offices:

Massachusetts Superior Court

Year left office: 2015

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Education

Bachelor's

Suffolk University, 1972

Law

Suffolk University, 1976

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Robert A. Cornetta was an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Courts. He was nominated to the district courts by former Governor William Weld in 1992, and was later assigned to the superior courts. Cornetta may serve on the court until he turns the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Education

Cornetta earned his A.B. with honors from Suffolk University in 1972. He then earned his J.D. with honors from the Suffolk University Law School in 1976.

Career

Before he became a superior court judge, Cornetta served as an associate justice for the Ipswich District Court beginning in 1992, becoming that court's presiding judge in 1997. He also became the acting presiding judge for the Salem District Court, as well as a Region II administrative justice, in 1998. Prior to his judicial career, Cornetta was an attorney in private practice from 1983 to 1992. He also worked as an assistant commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and as an assistant district attorney for Essex County. He was also the town manager for the town of Saugus. Cornetta was an adjunct professor of law at the Massachusetts School of Law.

Awards and associations

• Trustee, Massachusetts Bar Foundation
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Essex County Bar Association
• Regional Administrative Justice, Region II
• Chair, Committee on Caseflow Management
• Vice Chair, Committee on Impaired Driving
• Chair, Drug Court Policy Working Group

See also

• Massachusetts Superior Courts
• Massachusetts District Courts
• Ipswich District Court

External links

• Mass.Gov, "Superior Court Justices"
• Mass.Gov, "District Court Division"
• Mass.Gov, "Ipswich Judges"
• Mass.Gov, "Salem Judges"

Footnotes

Massachusetts courts

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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