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SUPREME JUDICIAL
COURT APPOINTS THREE NEW MEMBERS
AND REAPPOINTS FOUR MEMBERS TO COMMITTEE FOR
PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES
Boston, MA --- The Justices
of the Supreme Judicial Court recently appointed three
new members and reappointed four members to the Committee
for Public Counsel Services for three-year terms, in
accordance with G.L. c. 211D, §1. The terms expire
on March 1, 2008.
The
new appointees are Boston College Law School Associate
Professor Frank R. Herrmann of Newton, Boston University
School of Law Associate Clinical Professor Eva S. Nilsen
of Cambridge, and Attorney Timothy G. Watkins of Jamaica
Plain.
The
Justices also reappointed Attorneys Ann G. Crowley of
Beverly, a sole practitioner in Salem; Derege Demissie
of Jamaica Plain, a partner in the Cambridge law firm
of Doherty & Demissie; Judith Lindahl of Cambridge,
a sole practitioner in Boston; and Robert Quinn of Milton,
a partner in the Boston law firm of Quinn & Morris.
Professor
Herrmann has taught at Boston College School Law School
since 1991. Prior to that, he served as Rector of the
Jesuit Community at LeMoyne College and taught law classes
for three years. From 1977 to 1988, he was a public defender
with the Committee for Public Counsel Services. Professor
Herrmann holds a J.D. degree from Boston College Law
School, an M. Div. degree from Woodstock College of Theology,
and an A.B. degree from Fordham University.
Professor
Nilsen has been an Associate Clinical Professor at Boston
University School of Law since 1979, teaching and supervising
students in the Criminal Justice Clinic. She also teaches
and writes about criminal law. She was a Visiting Professor
at the University of the Punjab Law College in Lahore,
Pakistan and at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,
South Africa. For more than ten years, she has served
on the board of Suffolk Lawyers for Justice and its predecessor
organization. She is also a member of the Massachusetts
Bar Association and the Clinical Law Educators Association.
Professor Nilsen received a J.D. degree from the University
of Virginia Law School, an LLM degree from Georgetown
University Law Center, where she was an E. Barrett Prettyman
Fellow, and a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Yale
College.
Mr.
Watkins has served as an Assistant Federal Defender in
the Federal Defender Office of the District of Massachusetts
since 1999. Previously, he was a staff attorney for the
Public Counsel Division of the Committee for Public Counsel
Services for five years. He is a member of the Executive
Board of Directors of Massachusetts Citizens Against
the Death Penalty, the Massachusetts Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers, and the National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers. Mr. Watkins holds a J.D. degree from
Northeastern University School of Law and a Bachelor
of Music degree from Berklee College of Music.
The
Committee for Public Counsel Services is composed of
fifteen members appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court
for three-year terms. The Committee plans, coordinates,
and oversees the delivery of legal services to indigent
clients in criminal and certain non-criminal matters.
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