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Roderick L. Ireland

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Roderick L. Ireland (born December 3, 1944) is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and the first African American to serve that position. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: African Americans, Bachelor of Arts, Bill Weld, Columbia Law School, Deval Patrick, Doctor of Philosophy, Excelsior University, Fernande R. V. Duffly, Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), List of African American jurists, Margaret H. Marshall, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Appeals Court, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Master of Laws, Michael Dukakis, Northeastern University, Northeastern University School of Law, Ralph Gants, Roxbury, Boston, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Springfield, Massachusetts, The Boston Globe, Timeline of African-American firsts, University of Massachusetts Boston.

  2. Chief Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Bill Weld

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.

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Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School (CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City.

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Deval Patrick

Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is an American politician who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. Roderick L. Ireland and Deval Patrick are 21st-century African-American lawyers.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Excelsior University

Excelsior University is a private online university in Albany, New York.

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Fernande R. V. Duffly

Fernande R. V. Duffly (born December 10, 1949) is an American lawyer and jurist from Massachusetts.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Juris Doctor

A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law.

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Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university (HBCU) near Oxford, Pennsylvania.

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List of African American jurists

This list includes individuals self-identified as African Americans who have made prominent contributions to the field of law in the United States, especially as eminent judges or legal scholars.

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Margaret H. Marshall

Margaret Hilary Marshall (born September 1, 1944) is an American jurist who served as the 24th chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the first woman to hold the position. Roderick L. Ireland and Margaret H. Marshall are chief Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Appeals Court

The Massachusetts Appeals Court is the intermediate appellate court of Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Master of Laws

A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: Magister Legum or Legum Magister) is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject.

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Michael Dukakis

Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991.

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Northeastern University

Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Northeastern University School of Law

The Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL) is the law school of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ralph Gants

Ralph D. Gants (September 29, 1954September 14, 2020) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Roderick L. Ireland and Ralph Gants are chief Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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Roxbury, Boston

Roxbury is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg is a city in and the seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Timeline of African-American firsts

African Americans are an ethnic group in the United States.

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University of Massachusetts Boston

The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a public US-based research university.

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See also

Chief Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_L._Ireland

Also known as Roderick Ireland.