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JUDGE NANCY GERTNER (RET.)Senior Lecturer on Law
Harvard University
CHIEF JUSTICE RODERICK L. IRELAND (RET.)Distinguished Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
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commentator for MSNBC and spent two seasons as the humorist and commentator in the "Andy Rooney"
spot for 60 Minutes II and CBS.
He’s a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government with a Master’s Degree in Public Administra-
tion and is the founder of Humor for Humanity.
Judge Nancy Gertner is a graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School where she was an editor on
The Yale Law Journal. She received her M.A. in Political Science at Yale University. She has been an
instructor at Yale Law School, teaching sentencing and comparative sentencing institutions, since 1998.
She was appointed to the bench in 1994 by President Clinton.
Judge Gertner She has been profiled on a number of occasions in the Boston Globe, the ABA Journal,
Boston Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. She has written and spoken widely on various legal issues
and appears frequently as a keynote speaker, panelist or lecturer concerning civil rights, civil liberties,
employment, criminal justice and procedural issues, throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.
She has published articles, and chapters on sentencing, discrimination, and forensic evidence,
women's rights, and the jury system. In September of 2011, Judge Gertner retired from the federal
bench and joined the faculty of the Harvard Law School teaching a number of subjects including
criminal law, criminal procedure, forensic science and sentencing, as well as continuing to teach and
write about women’s issues around the world.
In 2008 she received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association, Section of
Individual Rights and Responsibilities, only the second woman to receive it (Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg was the first).
In 2011 she received the Massachusetts Bar Association's Hennessey Award for Judicial Excellence, and
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brandeis University. In 2012 she received the Arabella Babb
Mansfield award from the National Association of Women Lawyers, and the Leila J. Robinson Award of
the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts.
In 2014 she received the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement
Award from the American Bar Association Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession.
Roderick L. Ireland is a Distinguished Professor in theSchool of Criminology and Criminal Justice at North-
eastern University. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Lincoln University, Juris Doctor from Columbia
Law School, Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, and Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Policy and Society
from Northeastern University. His interests include criminal law, juvenile law, and constitutional law.
Prior to joining Northeastern in a full-time capacity, he had been a judge for 37 years, serving in the Boston
Juvenile Court from 1977 to 1990, the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 1990 to 1997, and the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court from 1997 to 2014. When he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Judicial Court in 1997, he became the first African-American to sit on that bench in its over three hundred year
history. In 2010 he became the Court’s first African-American Chief Justice.
Chief Justice Ireland is one of the four justices who voted in favor of same-sex marriage in Goodridge v.
Department of Public Health (2003), the nation’s very first case in which a state supreme court declared
same-sex marriage constitutional. Subsequently, he has lectured and spoken on that topic extensively,
including delivering the Sixteenth Annual Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Lecture on State Courts and Social
Justice at New York University School of Law. His address was entitled, “In Goodridge’s Wake: Reflections
on the Political, Public and Personal Repercussions of the Massachusetts Same-Sex Marriage Cases.”
In addition to Northeastern, Ireland has also taught at Harvard Law School, Boston University Law School,
Northeastern University School of Law, and the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He has received
numerous honors and awards, most recently to include the Judicial Excellence Award from the Mass.
Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Celebration of Excellence Award from the Mass. Black Lawyers Assoc. and
the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Black
Lawyers Association, and the Boston Bar Association’s Judicial Excellence Award.
C O M M U N I T Y H E R O E S
M A S T E R O F C E R E M O N I E S
JUDGE NANCY GERTNER (RET.)Senior Lecturer on Law,
Harvard University
CHIEF JUSTICE RODERICK L.
IRELAND (RET.)Distinguished Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
Northeastern University
MAY 10, 2016
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CHAIRMANScott Harshbarger, Esq.Casner Edwards
TREASURERThomas DeSimoneWS Development Associates LLC
VICE CHAIRMANGerald K. Kelley, Esq. MBTA (Retired)
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Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland photo by Brooks Canaday