page_title: List of people from Massachusetts
section_title: Lawyers and jurists
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Massachusetts / Lawyers and jurists
caption_attribution_description: 1902 portrait photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes
context_page_description: This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts. It includes both notable people born in the Commonwealth, and other notable people who are from the Commonwealth. People from Massachusetts are called "Massachusettsans" or "Bay Staters" after the Commonwealth's nickname.
context_section_description: F. Lee Bailey – criminal defense attorney; member of the "Dream Team"
  Martha Coakley – former Massachusetts Attorney General, U.S Senate candidate
  Caleb Cushing – former U.S. Attorney General
  William Cushing – one of the original Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
  Charles Devens – former U.S. Attorney General, Union Army commander in the Civil War
  Charles Garry − civil rights attorney
  Horace Gray – former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Court
  Maura Healey – Massachusetts Attorney General (incumbent)
  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Court; known for "Clear and present danger" opinion in Schenck v. United States
  Michael LeMoyne Kennedy − lawyer, businessman, and political activist in Massachusetts
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. − environmentalist and lawyer
  David Kris – Assistant Attorney General under President Obama
  William Henry Moody – former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Secretary of the Navy
  James Otis Jr. – lawyer; known for his catchphrase "No taxation without representation"
  Irving Picard – attorney in the Madoff scandal
  Josiah Quincy II – Boston lawyer
  Elliot Richardson – U.S. Attorney General during Nixon administration; former Massachusetts Attorney General
  Joseph Story – former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
  Webster Thayer – justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court, best known for Sacco and Vanzetti trial
  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend – Boston lawyer; Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
caption: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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