Justice Roderick L. Ireland

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Justice_Roderick_L._Ireland
GPTKB entity
Statements (23)
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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Columbia_Law_School
gptkb:Harvard_Law_School
gptkb:Lincoln_University_(Pennsylvania)
gptkbp:appointedBy gptkb:Governor_Deval_Patrick
gptkbp:dateOfBirth 1944
gptkbp:ethnicity gptkb:African-American
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Justice Roderick L. Ireland
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableFor first African American Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:judge
gptkb:lawyer
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Springfield,_Massachusetts
gptkbp:positionHeld gptkb:Associate_Justice_of_the_Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court
gptkb:Chief_Justice_of_the_Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Chief_Justice_Margaret_H._Marshall
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Chief_Justice_Ralph_D._Gants
gptkbp:termEnd Associate Justice: 2010
Chief Justice: 2014
gptkbp:termStart Associate Justice: 1997
Chief Justice: 2010
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6