Joseph D.
Steinfield, Esquire
was appointed to the
Commission in 2008. He was elected Chairman of the
Commission in November of 2012. He is a
partner at the Boston law firm of Prince Lobel Tye
LLP, after many years as a partner at Hill & Barlow,
P.C. Mr. Steinfield specializes in business and
First Amendment litigation. In 2000, he served as
special counsel to New Hampshire's House Judiciary
Committee and lead counsel during the impeachment
trial of the Chief Justice of the New Hampshire
Supreme Court. In 1984, Mr. Steinfield was elected
as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
and served as its State Chair for Massachusetts. He
is currently a member of its Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Steinfield is also a member of the American Law
Institute and is an adjunct professor at Boston
College Law School and University of New Hampshire
Law School. He is a member of the City of Boston
Finance Commission, previously served as Chair of
the Massachusetts Clients' Security Board, and was
the founding Chair of the Law Clerks' Society of the
Supreme Judicial Court. Mr. Steinfield, who is a
graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School,
served as Law Clerk to Justice Paul C. Reardon of
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
The
Honorable Judith Fabricant became a member of
the Commission in December of 2010.
She was elected Vice Chairman of the Commission in
November of 2012.
Judge
Fabricant has been an Associate Justice of the
Superior Court since 1996. After graduating from
Yale College and Yale Law School, Judge Fabricant
clerked for the Honorable Levin Campbell of the US
Court of Appeals. She was an Associate at Hill &
Barlow and an Assistant DA in Wake County, North
Carolina and in Essex County, Mass. Judge Fabricant
served as an Assistant Attorney General in Mass.,
becoming Chief of the Government Bureau. She is
Chair of the Superior Court Education Committee and
past Chair of the New Justices Training and
Mentoring Committee. She is a frequent presenter at
court and bar education programs.
The Honorable Mary Anne Sahagian
was appointed to the Commission in 2008. First
appointed to the bench in 1999, she currently serves
as the First Justice of the Essex County Probate and
Family Court. Judge Sahagian has served on the
Probate and Family Court Education Committee and the
Judicial Enhancement Committee. She previously
served as chair of the Probate and Family Court
Committee on the Development of the Guardian Ad
Litem Standards. Prior to her appointment to the
bench, Judge Sahagian was in private practice for
nineteen years. She is a member of the Massachusetts
and Essex County Bar Associations, as well as the
National Association of Women Judges, the
Massachusetts Judges Conference, and the
Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers.
Judge Sahagian is a graduate of the University of
Lowell and Suffolk University Law School.
The Honorable Roberto Ronquillo, Jr.
was appointed
as Justice of the Dorchester District Court in March
2001 and sat in the District Courts from 2001 to
2003. He has been in the Boston Municipal Court
since 2003 and presently sits as First Justice of
the East Boston Division. Prior to his appointment
to the bench, Judge Ronquillo was in private
practice for thirteen years and an Assistant DA in
Suffolk County. He is a graduate of New England
Law|Boston and the University of Texas at El Paso.
He is an Adjunct Faculty Member of New England
Law|Boston and is a member of the Boston Bar
Association, Massachusetts Association of Hispanic
Attorneys, Massachusetts Bar Association and the
Massachusetts Judges Conference. Judge Ronquillo is
a frequent presenter at court and bar education
programs.
Susan M. Finegan, Esquire
was appointed to the Commission in
2010. Ms. Finegan is a litigation partner at Mintz,
Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., and
serves as Chair of both the firm's Pro Bono
Committee and the Boston Office's Hiring Committee.
She is active in a number of professional
activities including the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court's Standing Committee on Pro Bono
Legal Services Committee (as its Chair); the
Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission; the
Boston Bar Association Council; and the Boston Bar
Association's Task Force on Expanding the Civil
Right to Counsel. She is also a former member of the
Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission. A
graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law
School, she is on the Board of Visitors of the
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at
Dartmouth College. In addition to her work at Mintz
Levin, Ms. Finegan has served as the Legal Director
at the Victim Rights Law Center, and as a law clerk
to both the Honorable Andrew A. Caffrey of the
United States District Court and the Honorable
Francis P. O'Connor of the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court.
John J. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
was appointed to the Commission in
2012. He is a member of the firm of Meehan, Boyle,
Black and Bogdanow, P.C. in Boston. Mr. Carroll is a
graduate of Boston College and Boston University
School of Law. Mr. Carroll served on
active duty in the United States Navy from 1968 to
1971 and as an active reserve member from 1972 to
1976, rising to the rank of Lieutenant.
From 1976 to 1977, Mr. Carroll worked for South
Dakota Legal Services, providing legal assistance on
the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Reservations.
Mr. Carroll has served on the Board of Directors of
Greater Boston Legal Services since 1996. He
also is presently on the Governance Committee for
the Massachusetts Bar Association. Previously,
Mr. Carroll served on the Massachusetts Bar
Association's Judicial Administration Section
Council, which he chaired in 1997-1998; the MBA's
Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section
Council, which he chaired in 1998-1999; the MBA's
Superior Court Caseflow Management Task Force, which
he chaired in 2001-2001; and the MBA's Bench Bar
Committee, which he chaired in 2003. In 2003,
Mr. Carroll was elected to serve as a member of the
House of Delegates of the Massachusetts Bar
Association, and he continued to serve in that
position until 2008. From 2001 to 2007, Mr.
Carroll served as a Hearing Officer at the
Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. In 2002, he
was elected to the Massachusetts Academy of Trial
Attorneys Board of Governors and continued to serve
in that position until 2008. Mr. Carroll is a
2008 recipient of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation's
President's Award.
Elizabeth W. Vorenberg
was
appointed a lay member of the Commission in 2009.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Before
moving to Massachusetts in 1970, she founded and
directed Joint Foundation Support, which provided
research and administrative services to small
foundations wanting to support civil rights and
civil liberties. Her most recent position was as
Assistant Commissioner for Research, Planning and
Evaluation in the Commonwealth's Department of
Public Welfare. She was the first State CHINS
Coordinator responsible for transferring status
offenders (runaways, truants, "stubborn" children)
from the Department of Youth Services to the Welfare
Department's Office of Social Services. From 1978 to
1983 she was deputy director of the Massachusetts
Advocacy Center (now Mass. Advocates for Children)
monitoring policy relating to juvenile justice and
child welfare. She is the Founding President of the
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform and
is a past president of the American Civil Liberties
Union of Massachusetts.
Rosemary J. Corley
was
appointed a lay member of the Commission in 2009.
She is a consultant in teacher mentoring, curriculum
development, and early childhood education and
serves on the Board of the Boys & Girls Clubs of
MetroWest. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Corley
taught for 35 years in the Hudson Public Schools,
developing programs for students with significant
learning challenges. She additionally served as a
professional development presenter, parent educator,
science and technology camp director, and teacher
association officer. She served the United Way of
Tri-County for decades as a campaign coordinator and
Board member, receiving the Reynolds and Lifetime
Achievement Awards. She is a graduate of Fitchburg
State College with a B.S. in Special Education and
an M.Ed. in Consulting Teaching. She is a member of
the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development and the Council for Exceptional
Children.
Quinton B. Dale
was appointed a lay member of the Commission in
2012. He is currently the Chief of
Investigations for the Massachusetts Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education. He
previously served as Director of the Investigation
Division for the Massachusetts Attorney General's
Office from 2002 to 2012. Prior to that, he
was Deputy Director of the Investigation Division of
the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office and
an Investigator for the Massachusetts Attorney
General's Office. In 1999, he received the
Edward Quinn Award of Excellence from the
Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. Mr.
Dale also previously served as a Corrections
Counselor for the Massachusetts Department of
Corrections. Mr. Dale is a former professional
basketball player. He has served as a head
High School basketball coach since 1992 and was
named the Boston Globe Division III Coach of the
Year in 1996. Mr. Dale is a graduate of
Northeastern University, where he received a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice.
He is also a graduate of Clinton Community College,
where he received an Associate Degree in Arts and
Sciences.
