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SUPREME
JUDICIAL COURT APPOINTS ASSISTANT CLERK
OF
THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT FOR THE COMMONWEALTH
Boston, MA--The
Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court today announced the
appointment of Jane Kenworthy Lewis of Cambridge as the Assistant
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth,
in accordance with G.L. c.221, §1.
As Assistant Clerk, Ms. Lewis
will assist the Clerk with her responsibilities and the Justices
with their range of responsibilities regarding litigation
in the Commonwealth’s courts. Her duties will include helping
the Clerk to develop and implement new procedures and policies
to enhance the operations of the office, communicating with
counsel and unrepresented litigants to explain appellate procedures,
coordinating with Trial Court clerks the preparation of papers
in appeals to the SJC and the disposition of matters remanded
by the SJC, participating in the management and refinement
of the Court’s automated docketing system and other management
systems, and assisting the Clerk in the hiring, training and
supervision of staff.
Ms. Lewis has been the Deputy
Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court since
1996, and was Assistant Reporter from 1987 until 1996. Prior
to that, Ms. Lewis was a lawyer in the firm of Berman &
Moren for three years with a practice in civil and criminal
law.She was a solo practitioner from 1982 to 1984. Ms. Lewis
began her legal career as a trial attorney with the Massachusetts
Defenders Committee in Middlesex and Essex counties. She is
a graduate of Boston University Law School and Boston University,
and has taken continuing education courses at Harvard Extension
School where she is a candidate for certification in Special
Studies in Administration and Management. Ms. Lewis is a member
of the Association of Reporters of Judicial Decisions, and
holds bar memberships in the Supreme Court of the United States,
the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit,
the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts,
and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Jane Kenworthy Lewis, originally
from Rockport, lives in Cambridge with her husband, Francis
H. Duehay, a former Mayor and City Councillor in Cambridge.
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