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Carolyn McGowan

Senior Trial Counsel, Committee for Public Counsel Services

Carolyn McGowan is Senior Trial Counsel at the Committee for Public Counsel Services/Public Defender Division. She was previously Attorney in Charge of the CPCS Middlesex Superior Court Trial Unit.  She is a member of the CPCS Murder List. Prior to joining CPCS in 2004, Ms. McGowan was a litigation associate at Goodwin Procter. From 1997-1999, she clerked for the Honorable Morris E. Lasker, U.S.D.C. (S.D.N.Y.). Ms. McGowan was appointed to the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission in 2019. She serves as co-chair of the Massachusetts Conviction Integrity Working Group convened in 2018 by the MBA.  She was a member of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Voir Dire Committee, Superior Court Implementation Subcommittee, and Other Courts and Education and Training Working Groups. Ms. McGowan is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Stanford University (M.A., B.A.).

Roles

  • Massachusetts Court System  

    The Massachusetts court system consists of the Supreme Judicial Court, the Appeals Court, the Executive Office of the Trial Court, the 7 Trial Court departments, the Massachusetts Probation Service, and the Office of Jury Commissioner.

  • Massachusetts Sentencing Commission  

    The Massachusetts Sentencing Commission's mission is to promote truth in sentencing by formulating uniform sentencing policies, developing systematic sentencing guidelines, and integrating intermediate sanctions within the sentencing guidelines.

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