Sandra Lea Lynch
| Sandra Lea Lynch | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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In office June 16, 2008 – June 16, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Boudin |
| Succeeded by | Jeffrey R. Howard |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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Assumed office March 17, 1995 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Stephen Breyer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 31, 1946 Oak Park, Illinois |
| Education |
Wellesley College (A.B.) Boston University School of Law (J.D.) |
Sandra Lea Lynch (born July 31, 1946) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that Court, and on June 16, 2008, became its first female chief judge.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Lynch graduated from Lake Highlands High School, Richardson Independent School District, Dallas, Texas, in 1964, as a member of the first graduating class. Lynch received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Wellesley College in 1968, and her Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law in 1971.
From 1971 to 1973, Lynch served as a law clerk for Judge Raymond J. Pettine of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, becoming the first female law clerk to serve in that court. She then went on to serve as an assistant state attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1973 to 1974 and general counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Education from 1974 to 1978.
In 1978, Lynch entered private practice, joining the law firm of Foley, Hoag, & Eliot, becoming a partner in 1982. During her tenure at Foley Hoag, Lynch became the first woman to head the firm's litigation practice, and was among the team of lawyers representing defendant W.R. Grace & Co. in the Woburn, Massachusetts, toxic tort trial (the subject of Jonathan Harr's 1995 book A Civil Action.) Lynch remained in private practice until being appointed to the First Circuit.
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