The Flaschner Judicial Institute heartily congratulates Chief Justice Dana M. Gershengorn on her new position as Chief Justice of the Juvenile Court. She succeeds Chief Justice Amy L. Nechtem, who retired in June after 23 years on the bench.
Judge Gershengorn was appointed to the Juvenile Court in 2009 and served in the Plymouth County Juvenile Court Division. She has sat on several committees, including the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law and served on the Juvenile Court Education Committee. She also co-chaired the Trial Court’s Innovation Grant Committee. The Juvenile Court Department is comprised of 11 divisions with 42 authorized judicial positions across the Commonwealth.
Judge Gershengorn began her legal career in 1994 as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County where she served in the Child Abuse Unit and was later an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Division of the Attorney General’s Office. She served several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in Washington, D.C. She returned to Massachusetts in 2005 to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney where she was responsible for all the Child Exploitation matters prosecuted federally in the Commonwealth. She was appointed deputy chief of the Major Crimes Unit in 2008. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Chief Justice Gershengorn has attended many Flaschner programs over the years. We look forward to working together to provide cutting-edge educational programs for Massachusetts judges.