Associate Justice Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr.
Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr., attended Boston public schools. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1966, a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1969, where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1972 with a concentration in constitutional and administrative law. From 1969 to 1971 he was a law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court, serving as chief law clerk during his second year. In 1972 he joined the Boston law firm of Burns and Levinson. From 1975 to 1982 he was an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth, where he was chief of the Administrative Law Division and chief of litigation of the Government bureau. In 1982 he returned to private practice as a partner in the firm of Ferriter, Scobbo, Sikora, Caruso & Rodophele. His work focused on civil litigation, especially in administrative law and business disputes. In 1996 Governor William Weld appointed him as a Justice of the Superior Court, where he served for ten years, when Governor Mitt Romney nominated him to the Appeals Court. He took the oath of office here on December 27, 2006. Justice Sikora has taught at Boston University School of Law, Boston College Law School and New England School of Law. From 1972 to 1978 he was an associate editor of the Massachusetts Law Quarterly. He has also drafted and graded questions for the Board of Bar Examiners. He has published numerous articles in the Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law and the Massachusetts Law Quarterly/Law Review. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Suffolk Inn of Court. For many years he served in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps, retiring in 2002 as a Lieutenant Colonel.